Would be an understatement. But everyone makes mistakes.
Last week Roger L. Simon made one, in my book at least, when he said “Sign Me Up” to the idea of a National ID Card.
And you are uneasy again. The government is incompetent, you say. So what? Who said the government should do the work itself? Outsource it to Oracle, Sun Microsystems, some Silicon Valley wizards. The technology of this sort of thing is advancing at a breakneck clip. The side benefit of this is that an advanced high tech card can replace, or at least displace, all those green cards and driver’s licenses we have been using as de facto ID cards and that are so easily counterfeited or stolen. Sure some super-hacker will figure out how to put my fingerprints on your card and vice-versa, but those cases will be nowhere near as common as the shenanigans we deal with now.
As anyone who has kept up with Joe Huffman’s posts on ID cards can attest, the counterfeitors will most likely have their cards done and in circulation before the feds.
Maybe they can put a tattoo on everyone’s forearm, you know, to protect us. You’re either with us or agin us.
Think about the children!!
And the members of government can have their tattoos up under their left armpits, on their torsos. We have to distinguish the anointed from the goats, after all.
Besides, IIRC there is a chip that can be inserted subdermally in the hand or forearm and one merely waves it over a transmitter/receiver to buy drinks and such at some Mexican/Caribbean resort. It’s similar to the chip put in dogs. Watch for it to be put into Alzheimer’s patients, then children, which ignores the fact that it operates at too short a range to actually be useful for finding such people if they become missing.