From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 95 07:22:30 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: A glance at the future of missing child identification
Message-ID: <9508211422.AA13099@toad.com>
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> We all read the stories. "Infant stolen from crib in Hospital", "Thousands
> of children abducted every year". Many parents would jump at the anything
> that might increase the chance of recovering their children should they be
> abducted. Just take a look at lines during "Child Fingerprint Days" at you
> local mall.
> The transpoders also provide ID for the ATMs and credit card termials of
> the future. No criminal can loot your account. You can leave the ATM card
> at home. How convenient! 

    This is one place where the nutty end of the religious right can 
actually help preserve liberties - the proposal is so close the the 
'mark of the Beast'  in Revelations that they can be counted on to oppose
it to their dying breaths.



Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team                                
Process Software Corporation
trei@process.com