Real ID
11 May 2005I am too busy (as always) to elaborate in too much detail, but I figured I owed more than my previous sarcastic quip. So I’ll just defer to Bruce Schneier, who has written extensively about it:
Blake has also discussed it here.
This legislation is a mistake, and it’s an unfunded mandate that was rammed through congress with little debate, to boot.
Owed more than a sarcastic quip? Uh, I gotta go rethink my blog and the meaning of life.
In an effort to try and help with this content reform I will pass along a question that my father sent me this morning in response to my even shorter sarcastic quip.
“And yeah, the realID is gonna be weird, but some first step toward a more positive ID is inevitable - don’t you think? We know that the first step will be stupid, but that is what we are - a nation of editors.”