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Re: Internal Passports

To: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Internal Passports
From: Black Unicorn <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:01:22 -0400 (EDT)
cc: Lucky Green <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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Posted-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:01:23 -0400
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On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> I had the same problems when I was working at Xerox in Webster, NY. 
> Supermarkets just plain didn't want to accept my passport as valid ID.
> 
> More recently, I attended an IEEE conference at MITRE in Virginia. To 
> enter the building, they required you to fill out a form listing your 
> SSN. The forms were taped to the guard's desk, in full view of anyone who 
> was curious.
> 
> I was horrified and gave a random number.

You should always be horrified, and always give a random number.

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