RFID driver's licenses?

[Nomen Nescio]

A friend of mine is expressing concern over the recently passed REAL ID act
which will supposedly require RFID-readable driver's licenses (which it doesn't
say in the text of the bill which just makes a vague reference to
machine-readable technology.)

My questions are:

1. Have any states already implemented RFID-readable IDs/licenses?

2. If not, which states plan to?

The ghost of Cypherpunks

[Matt Curtin]

Slashdot has published Isaac Jones' review of my book describing how
we killed 56-bit DES, Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption
Standard.  The followup has been curiously devoid of mention of the
Cypherpunks, a critical force in the Crypto Wars and to whom I
dedicated the book.

  
http://books.slashdot.org/books/05/09/08/1653245.shtml?tid=93tid=172tid=231tid=95tid=6

Did the Cypherpunks have their heyday and that's it?

-- 
Matt Curtin,  author of  Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard
Founder of Interhack Corporation  +1 614 545 4225 http://web.interhack.com/

Constitution? What Constitution?

[Eric Cordian]

There's no civil liberty or Constitutional guarantee the President
can't violate, as long as he mentions protecting the nation
from terrorism while trying to justify it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html

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A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can
indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil in the
absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to
protect the nation from terrorist attacks.

[Oh look.  It's the magic t word.]]

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit came in
the case of Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member who was
arrested in Chicago in 2002 and designated an enemy combatant by
President Bush. The government contends that Padilla trained at al
Qaeda camps and was planning to blow up apartment buildings in the
United States.

Padilla, a U.S. citizen, has been held without trial in a U.S. naval
brig for more than three years, and his case triggered a legal battle
with vast implications for civil liberties and the fight against
terrorism.

Attorneys for Padilla and a host of civil liberties organizations
blasted the detention as illegal and said it could lead to the
military being allowed to hold anyone, from protesters to people who
check out what the government considers the wrong books from the
library.

Federal prosecutors asserted that Bush not only had the authority to
order Padilla's detention but that such power is essential to
preventing attacks. In its ruling today, the 4th Circuit overturned a
lower court and came down squarely on the government's side.

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Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law