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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 05:05:21 -0500
To: Matthew Gaylor <<a href="mailto:freematt@coil.com">freematt@coil.com</a>>
From: Matthew Gaylor <<a href="mailto:freematt@coil.com">freematt@coil.com</a>>
Subject: Security, Fear, and National ID Cards By Steven M. Cherry
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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:22:43 -0500
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From: Steven Cherry <<a href="mailto:steven@panix.com">steven@panix.com</a>>
Subject: Security, Fear, and National ID Cards
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<<a href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/special/sept01/idcards.html>">http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/special/sept01/idcards.html></a>
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Security, Fear, and National ID Cards
By Steven M. Cherry
posted 9 November 2001
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In the first weeks after 11 September, with diverse figures calling
for creation of a national identity card, New Yorkers recognized a
need for greater personal identification. At the IEEE Spectrum
editorial offices (about 5 km from Ground Zero, and two blocks from
the now-tallest building in the city), building ID cards, previously
optional, are now obligatory. In many offices, visitors are required
to either be listed in advance by name (or sign a logbook), and
produce a photo ID that matches the name.
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Identification cards, though, are only as good as the systems for
producing and using them. It soon became obvious that the building ID
card I had to get a few days after the collapse of the twin towers
wasn't being required. It seemed any photo-containing card would do.
Even more disturbingly, at a local hospital, where I'm receiving
therapy for a recent injury, it was, after four visits, becoming
increasingly difficult to resist the suspicion that while one had to
produce an ID card, it wasn't being examined, nor was it being
compared with the name one signed to get in.
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So I decided to put this new security to a test. Like every kid from
Queens who started exploring the streets of Manhattan as an
adolescent, I knew just where to go-the nameless storefronts of
indeterminate businesses on the still slightly disreputable streets
of Eighth Avenue, just north of the Port Authority bus terminal-in
other words, Times Square, or what's left of it. I walked into the
first place with a sign that said "Photo ID."
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