Bruce Schneier has written a really excellent piece in the San Francisco Chronicle, called “How We Are Fighting the War on Terrorism: IDs and the Illusion of Security“. He raises several excellent points about how merely having an ID these days is essentially meaningless, and why the ID of using IDs as a stalwart of national security is a dangerously flawed idea.
Why IDs Create a False Sense of Security
February 3, 2004 by