more on Richard Clarke on airport ID checking

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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Subject:        Re: [IP] more on Richard Clarke on airport ID checking
Author: Steven Cherry <s.cherry () ieee org>
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
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> 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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