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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (20060)	11/15/2001 2:03:24 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Right off the top of my head, I'd say the start-up phase of such a data base would take 20 years. It would be totally useless in terms of increasing our security during that period. May even give us a false sense of security. When we're looking at the feasibility of a new system, we need to differentiate the system in operational mode from the start-up and population of the data base, which is a one-time problem, not an ongoing one.

To: Lane3 who wrote (20060)	11/15/2001 2:05:24 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

I agree with you that it's interesting to brain-storm the idea. So here's some things others have suggested and I agree with. You shouldn't have to carry it with you all the time, just when you want to do certain things, but you should need it to get a job, open a bank account, cash a check, buy an airplane ticket, board an airplane, come into the country, leave the country. We need to require people using visas to have one, too.

To: Lane3 who wrote (20060)	11/15/2001 2:10:09 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 59480

Hands down winner for stupid post of the day: Message 16663556 JLA

To: Lane3 who wrote (20060)	11/15/2001 2:26:51 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

So if it takes a while to cross-check a fingerprint, I don't think it matters. We don't need to produce IDs in real time. 4 to 8 weeks for processing would not be unreasonable. I think it does. Somebody could forge multiple birth records and obtain as many fake national i.d. cards as they cared to apply for during that 4 to 8 week lag. Think of each fingerprint as a postage stamp. Unless and until it's "cancelled" it could be used over and over again.