[morpheuskafka]

Hmm, almost like those REAL IDs weren't such a good idea... not like civil liberties advocates mentioned this or anything... The ID security improvements (central issuance, anti-copying features) were fine and good, the federal database is not.

[tal8d]

Oh I miss the good old days when we were fighting things like the clipper chip and weaponized algorithms. Now it is all about the data, which is much more difficult to rally people around. Anybody else remember the time the Office of Personnel Management leaked all the military biometric records (plus security clearance metadata) they fought to have stewardship over? No more vets working under cover :) You'd think they'd have learned that they can't trust themselves to warehouse so much high value data in one place, that single incident will serve as a daily reminder for about 20 years. Lots of externalities in that as well: given what would have been in my records, I don't think I'd fare well doing business in China.

[koolba]

Why? This is a feature, not a bug. It’s working exactly as intended.