NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.

[solarbird]

NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.

NO. NO NATIONAL WORK CARD. NO NATIONAL ID. NO BIOMETRIC LEGAL-TO-WORK DATABASE. FUCK YOU, SENATE DEMOCRATS. NO.

Also, FUCK you, Arizona, and FUCK you, cowards of the press, and FUCK YOU TOO, Barack Obama, with your whistleblower prosecutions. In fact, make that a double, with jumping in in support of "judicial overreach" and endorsing the Christianist bullshit rhetoric of "liberal activist judges." And FUCK YOU for your and Bush's military commissions, too.

God dammit, all you fuckers better line up so I can kick all your asses.

HEY LIBERALS, ARE THE DEMOCRATS ON YOUR SIDE YET?

Comments

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

There is no such unforgeable card. It's a fantasy invented and promulgated by people who should know better.

A better alternative would be a system that doesn't get so thoroughly broken when social security numbers are stolen.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Find one that doesn't involve national databases and/or biometrics, then.

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

Sure. Problems arise when Social Security numbers are stolen because it's used as a de facto national ID number. In combination with your birth date and mailing address, possessing that is sufficient to "prove" identity to lots of official and quasi-official agencies.

One alternative would be to use an independent account number for each of those separate systems. That means more account numbers to keep track of, but in mitigating identity fraud that's a feature.

Biometrics help in certain applications, but trying to combine them with an all-authoritative national identity is a recipe for disaster.