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Originally posted by intelinside451
reply to post by Klassified
I can't wait for the "flaws" to show up. Opps we can't scan your card, you'll have to come with us. Oh you're not a fugitive, our bad, you can go now. Oh oh my favorite, you lost your card? $100 fine for not having your card on you, more money for the government to blow.
LOL, so tell me now how bad Bush was????
The deadline for state implementation of the national ID law lapsed nearly three years ago. Half the states in the country have affirmatively barred themselves from implementing REAL ID or they have passed resolutions objecting to the national ID law. But the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly extended the deadline and reduced the compliance bar to suggest progress on the flagging national ID effort. With another faux implementation deadline looming in May, the DHS is almost certain to issue a blanket extension of the compliance deadline again soon.
This final rule also provides a process for states to seek an additional extension of the compliance deadline to May 11, 2011, by demonstrating material compliance with the core requirements of the Act and this rule.
Originally posted by VitriolAndAngst
Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
Copy your passport, drivers license, birth certificate, SS card and scan it. Also copy your fingerprints and a a few orthographic photos of yourself onto it. PGP sign it. Store it on a truecrypt encrypted USB flash drive as safekeeping in case anyone tries to steal your identity.
I've stored MOST of what you recommended on my computer and a backup drive -- but my fingerprints? I think I carry those around.
And the encryption -- is that just for keeping prying eyes out? I'm more likely to forget the password than I am to have it stolen from me. Where your ID gets stolen, is from companies that require you to give them your SS number. Banks, mortgage companies -- oh heck, ANYONE, I once had some company try to REQUIRE my SSN for renting video tapes.
On the "black market" the cost of a SSN is worth about 2 cents. Your credit card number would be about 25 cents. Everything together would be worth a LOT more. So, I memorize my home address and SSN and name, and don't store it with that other data.
Identity theft could be easily solved, by the way, but by creating a problem that can ONLY be solved with a National ID -- it allows them to get more power. Probably some company with good connections will be the sole source of the cards and will store all the data as well -- there is no provision to stop a private company from sharing this data with it's subsidiaries. Therefore; your data will be safely guarded by the biggest crooks possible, who don't need identity theft -- they'll issue you a 40% interest credit card and let YOU bankrupt yourself with your own, secure ID.
>> Identity theft would be a bigger issue for me, if I weren't already getting ripped off by the "known" thieves like Chase bank.
Originally posted by VitriolAndAngst[/i
I mean, a minute in a Microwave would destroy both the data and the GPS tracking.
Originally posted by CosmicCitizen
Originally posted by VitriolAndAngst[/i
I mean, a minute in a Microwave would destroy both the data and the GPS tracking.
Disabling the card means that you would not be permitted to buy goods where a card is required, pass thru a road block, etc.....good luck with that.
Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
Originally posted by CosmicCitizen
Originally posted by VitriolAndAngst[/i
I mean, a minute in a Microwave would destroy both the data and the GPS tracking.
Disabling the card means that you would not be permitted to buy goods where a card is required, pass thru a road block, etc.....good luck with that.
Not unless you use an RFID reader and scan someone else s card onto yours, you could still make purchases and use it for entry.
Originally posted by Abney
We're not even remotely close to this happening. The "Real ID panic" and "disclosure is imminent" predictions are two I have seen fail time and time again. I have no clue why people keep buying into this hysteria.
Originally posted by beezzer
I see a new market in black-market ID's.
My name will be Charlie Sheen.