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Subject: Re: [IP] more on Richard Clarke on airport ID checking
Author: Steven Cherry <s.cherry@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 08th March 2005 12:45:36 PM
Dave,
Working in New York, in the days after 9/11 any number of meaningless
security measures were put in place, including having to show an ID in all sorts of pointless circumstances. I bought a $20 ID card in Times Square and started using it. The story ("Security, Fear, and National ID Cards") is still available at <http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/special/sept01/idcards.html>. Steven
At 9:25 PM -0500 3/7/05, David Farber wrote:
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>Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:34:20 -0600 >To: <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: [IP] Richard Clarke on airport ID checking > >I read the Richard Clarke article (below) with some interest and >thought I'd tell you that, last summer, while in Las Vegas working on >a documentary film, I bought a "gag" driver's license in the gift shop >at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino. It was a clearly phony "Las Vegas" >driver's license with the name and picture of Don Rickles on it. >Naturally, Las Vegas doesn't issue any driver's licenses, so the thing
>was clearly -- I mean as clearly as one could possibly be -- a joke. --
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