From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 09:47:22 MDT
Prinz Eugen schriebt:
> As long as it can be used for involuntary identification, I count it
> in with the biblical mark of the beast (666 0wn0rZ y0). As if recent
> homeland biometrics craze wasn't bad enough...
Ph33r the h0m3l4nd'2 L337n3$Z. (sic)
Given current events re: Oracle, Microsoft (Passportkraft? Nein Danke!), the
number of financial institutions that think the last four digits of "my
social" (sic) is some sort of secure PIN, the number of _other_ financial
institutions that use my entire Social Security Number as my account ID...
It could be (slightly) worse, along the lines of the "In heaven/hell the cooks
are... the cars are... [etc]."
But only slightly.
I'm getting pretty _sic_...
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