David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:01:47PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:55:33PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > at the end of the day you have to give away personal ideals to live > > > in a society, the value of the society in terms of personal liberty, > > > is not how much information that have on you, but what they do with > > > it. > > As someone with a large interest in security, what all of your points miss > > is the idea of giving everyone the minimum information possible. Why give > > them an identity card with everything, when you can give them only your > > name or your name and address? > > A more important question seems to be "what problem do you think this will > solve?". That is the way to approach the problem when writing to your MP. > If you come across as being a paranoid nutcase you will be ignored.
According to the radio today the subject of ID cards has been dropped. Now we can untwist our collective knickers. -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire ---------- chmod a+x /bin/laden ----------
