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[IP] more on Amtrak's ID requiremeent




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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:46:49 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Amtrak's ID requiremeent
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And on my trip home from Washington last week, the conductors checked
eeryone's ID and announced that this was required by "Federal law".
They couldn't or wouldn't answer when I asked what good such checks
were.

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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