National ID Strangulation
Listening to today: HIM – Dark Shadows, Brilliant Highlights; The Shins – Oh, Inverted World; Bright Eyes – Lifted, Or the Story is in the soil; Bright Eyes – One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels E.P; Bright Eyes – Every Day Every Night E.P; Hilltop Hoods – The Calling; Hilltop Hoods – Left Foot, Right Foot; The Herd – The Sun Never Sets; The Killers – Hot Fuss
Argh!!!! Why can’t people see how evil a national ID card would be?? You start checking people’s ID’s at train stations to make sure they’re not wanted terrorists (because we should all trust the government to make sure that every stupid young man who wants to make a martyr of himself is entered magically into a database) then they start checking at supermarkets for the same reason (or for having a criminal record, or history as a drug user, or for owing money on your taxes), and keeping an electronic trail of your activities, then bang! No food for you if you don’t wish for big business and the government to trace every step you ever take.
Now, I’m not being overly paranoid here – this is exactally the way eastern european communist states control their people, but not with such invasive technology (because they can’t afford it). The CCP of China is well on the way to using technology to opress the people, they’re even starting their own internet because they’ve had such trouble censoring this one (see China Prepares to Launch Alternate Internet and China’s Ministry of Information Industry revamps Internet domain names system.) Think of jewish people trying to escape nazi germany, the only way was to have forged papers. It’s impossible for an innocent person to forge a database-connected ID card, but you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a huge number of organised criminals getting cards with fake details right from the start. I’m a computer database programmer. I know how disgustingly bad the security is on most systems (the USA electronic voting machines have MS Access-like databases with no password protection if you open the database to ‘edit’ it like a programmer (or anyone with that knowledge) can do.)
Ugh I can’t keep ranting, I’m getting too stressed. The letters regarding a national ID card I hate the most are the “But lots of countries in europe have one, so we’re behind the times. We should keep up to date with technology…” HOW CAN YOU BE SO BLIND??
See Article: Simple path to ID card
