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1998-02-10 - Re: Driver Licenses

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
To: Lucky Green <tcmay@got.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1998-02-10 12:27:09 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:27:09 +0800

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:27:09 +0800
To: Lucky Green <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Driver Licenses
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At 02:12 AM 2/10/98 +0100, Lucky Green wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Tim May wrote:
>> If a U.S. Passport is not considered enough I.D., because it doesn't have
>> the Big Brother Inside magstripe, one walks away from the transaction.
>
>Just as a data point, in the State of Oregon, an US passport is *not*
>valid ID for alcohol purchases. Magstripe or no magstripe.
>
>-- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.
>   "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"

So I guess foreigners can't buy booze in Oregon at all.  

The new (last 10 years) passports don't have a mag stripe but do have the ICAO machine- reabable text string including a replay of the Passport info together with checksum digits.  There is also space for a National ID Number for those countries which have one but it is blank on US passports since we don't have a national ID.

DCF

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