Steve Asher wrote to All:
SA> Dean's current stand on privacy appears to leave little wiggle room: His 
SA> campaign platform pledges unwavering support for "the constitutional 
SA> principles of equality, liberty and privacy."

Go figure why he didn't get elected. Looks like the democrats in the US want 
shepherd to rule the sheeple...

SA> There's probably a good reason why Dean spoke so vaguely: It's unclear 
how
SA> such a system would work in practice. Must Internet cafes include uniform 
SA> ID card readers on public computers? Would existing computers have to be 
SA> retrofitted? Would tourists be prohibited from bringing laptops unless 
SA> they
SA> sported uniform ID readers? What about Unix shell accounts? How did a 
SA> politician who is said to be Internet-savvy concoct this scheme?

Because he's either clueless or invented the internet. Frankly, how does this
prevent John T. Hacker to use his father's card to go into a porn chatroom. 
Or
a chatroom hosted outside of the US?
  


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