howard dean on privacy
a national id card? with biometrics?
"in many ways, privacy is the new urban myth....
the information for sale regarding your private life is detailed -- and lucrative. when it comes to the internet, every web page you have ever visited, every email you have ever sent, every word you have ever typed, is stored somewhere and can be accessed by someone with the right skills."
okay, howie: first of all, ever heard of ssl and https? how about redirectors and anonymizers? or ssh? or encrypted imap? how about gpg and pgp? and second, just because it's easy to gather all this information on people, that justifies making it easier?
"those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." -ben franklin