{"id":270,"date":"2004-10-08T15:54:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T19:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=270"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:40:31","slug":"slashdotrfid-drivers-licenses-debated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/08\/slashdotrfid-drivers-licenses-debated\/","title":{"rendered":"Slashdot:RFID Drivers&#8217; Licenses Debated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/10\/08\/1636231\">Slashdot | RFID Drivers&#8217; Licenses Debated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be all for the idea of universal identifiability if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that our government is INCOMPETENT when it comes to doing these sorts of things PROPERLY, never mind the fact that I wouldn&#8217;t trust them with that kind of power\/information in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d be all for the idea of universal ID if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that our government is INCOMPETENT when it comes to doing these sorts of things PROPERLY, never mind the fact that I wouldn&#8217;t trust them with that kind of power\/information in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-4m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1279,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/08\/11\/microchip-rfid-passport-cloned\/","url_meta":{"origin":270,"position":0},"title":"Microchip (RFID) Passport Cloned","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In case there was any doubt that this whole digital passport \/ RFID passport thing was never about security (via Slashdot): \"New microchip passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft failed the test when a researcher was able to manipulate one in minutes. 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