From: Jiri Baum <jirib@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 01:52:12 PDT
To: tibbs@sina.hpc.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Subject: Re: A glance at the future of missing child identification
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Message-ID: <199508310851.SAA17944@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
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Hello tibbs@sina.hpc.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
  and cypherpunks@toad.com
  and tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)

...[about transponders for humans]...
> Believe it or not, something like this is being used (or is being prepared
> for use) in breast implants.  An article in the Houston (silicone city)
...

Is this what they call topic drift?

> Subject: Re: A glance at the future of missing child identification

I can just see the parents getting their young daughters into this system.

Boys, of course, can look after themselves. Sure.
(Or do you envision young boys with breast implants?)


ObCrypto:

So, if they manage to make it more appropriate for both young girls and
for boys, are there any counterarguments? (Not for c'punks, for general
population: "missing children" will be hard to argue against.)

  * privacy (worth a try, anyhow)

  * use of the info by the bad guys (the mythical "pretty girl radar" :-)

  * "witness/victim protection" could be made harder by this

  * alternative: the transponder password could be shared secret between
the parents and the state (what combination here?); protects both against 
perverted state and perverted parents...


OK, what have I missed?

Jiri
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