IP: more on The Marker of a Criminal [read and think djf]

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:12:49 -0800
> From: Ed Gerck <egerck () nma com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
>
> Dave:
>
> Current statistics in the US indicate that one out of every three US
> residents will be arrested (and, handcuffed) in their lifetime.  It is
> perhaps an order of magnitude larger than in Germany, for example,
> or in Brazil -- where citzens are also not routinely handcuffed when
> arrested (only if they resist or pose a threat).  But, US society seems
> to accept arresting and handcuffing in a way that other societies
> would not.  It is a culture thing and has IMO nothing to do with a
> lesser significance of freedom in the US.  Though it should make
> technologists that champion for faulty biometrics, faulty
> non-repudiation protocols in e-commerce, faulty digital signature
> laws, etc, think twice -- the joke may be on them, someday.  One
> out of three is a pretty small margin ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed Gerck
>
> Dave Farber wrote:
>
> > Subject: The Marker of a Criminal
> >
> > by Declan McCullagh
> > 3:00 a.m. 19.Nov.99.PDT
> >
> > You're driving home from a party on a chill weekend night and
> > encounter your first unpleasant surprise of the evening: A police car
> > behind you with its lights ablaze.
> >
> > Turns out you didn't halt entirely for that last stop sign, or so the
> > friendly policeman says. But he doesn't seem nearly as congenial as he
> > hands you a cotton swab and tells you to touch it to the inside of
> > your cheek for a DNA sample.
> >
> > The second unhappy surprise: You're under arrest.
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32626,00.html
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Ed Gerck
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