prog: (jenna)
prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2005-05-11 12:19 pm

Make Me Mad

Explain to me how the National ID card is so depressingly worse than the established use of SSIDs/drivers licenses/state IDs throughout current American society.

Seriously, I'm asking.

[identity profile] novalis.livejournal.com 2005-05-11 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
See section 202(b)(9). Technically, this could be filled by punchcards or RFID instead, but swipes seem likeliest.

[identity profile] keimel.livejournal.com 2005-05-11 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The text of this is

(9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements.


Rather vague. It will contain a machine readable technology, whether swipe or RFID.