[jaguar]

Now where in this system is there a threat to citizen's liberties, security, or privacy. The system works for the individual - not for any big corporation, big government, big crime family, etc. We don't have any identification system that works for the citizen - only systems that work for government, big business, and everyone else. What do you have to verify who you are and to protect your ID? Currently nothing. Zero. Zilch. Knot. Nada. Currently threats to your privacy, security, liberties, and rights increase every year, probably exponentially, and without any solution in sight.

I lvoe it. Talk about doublethink. So who WIL lhave access to this database becuase you seem to be vaguely pointing that law enforcement won't. INtersting, not what I heard. If it is the case, then who does? A bunch of sysadmins and noone else? If that is not the case re the arguements i've previously stated, itsmerely selling out all vague notions of the slighest with of privicy for a system that has questionable purpose.

2) The card's authenticity can be immediately verified to a master database meaning that a counterfeit card is not possible. BTW, this part of the technology is so old that it was even used to protect commerical satellites.

So you establish some massive infrastructure to authenticatre cards - again'st what? The bovious is some unique id point on the card, good luck finding a tech that can't be cracked. What stops someone doing what they do with creditcards now, hack up the reader a bit and copy the data off the card - then onto a new card, how can the database tell the differnece unless both are verified at the same time or a very different lcoations. So while it would be possible to catch someone, it would probably take a little time and data analysis with the person involved. Makes it all a bit harder but not impossible. SO in exchange for a little more security your comprimising your every action to someone - brilliant.