{"id":839,"date":"2007-01-30T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=839"},"modified":"2010-05-01T22:53:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T02:53:57","slug":"839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/01\/30\/839\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Schneier on REAL-ID (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great new article up on Bruce Schneier’s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“A reliance on ID cards is based on a dangerous security myth, that if only we knew who everyone was, we could pick the bad guys out of the crowd.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WHEN will people understand this? I, for one, am glad that Maine is standing up to it – and from what I hear, other states (including my new best friend state, New Hampshire) are doing the same. Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A reliance on ID cards is based on a dangerous security myth, that if only we knew who everyone was, we could pick the bad guys out of the crowd.”<\/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_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],"tags":[385,65,26],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-real-id","tag-security","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/simUj-839","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":491,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/15\/more-real-id-stuff\/","url_meta":{"origin":839,"position":0},"title":"More REAL ID Stuff","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 15, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's some select reading. The first 3 articles are from Bruce Schneier's \"Crypto-Gram\" newsletter; the other one is an EPIC article. Enjoy.","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4877,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2016\/05\/20\/its-time-to-let-go-of-american-individualism\/","url_meta":{"origin":839,"position":1},"title":"It’s Time to Let Go of American Individualism","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"America has long cherished the spirit of individualism, but these days we could stand to maybe loosen up a bit in regards to it.","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"law of self-reliance","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2016\/04\/law-of-self-reliance-800x758.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2016\/04\/law-of-self-reliance-800x758.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2016\/04\/law-of-self-reliance-800x758.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2016\/04\/law-of-self-reliance-800x758.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1324,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/09\/02\/the-tsas-photo-id-rules-are-useless\/","url_meta":{"origin":839,"position":2},"title":"The TSA’s Photo ID Rules are Useless","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The rules that the TSA has rolled out regarding photo IDs and their requirements for getting onto passenger airplanes are usless. In fact, you could argue that they are worse than useless, since they create a false sense of security - and they cost us a lot of money (both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":896,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/06\/07\/more-on-the-missing-children\/","url_meta":{"origin":839,"position":3},"title":"More on the “Missing Children”","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We are rearing our children in captivity -- their habitat shrinking almost daily. In 1970 the average nine-year-old girl would have been free to wander 840 metres from her front door. By 1997 it was 280 metres. 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