From: sar <sar@cynicism.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 06:07:26 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Brit Fascists To Track Motorists - DigiCash Obsolescent
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At 07:23 AM 7/25/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>At 02:34 AM 7/24/97 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>>On Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 01:59:00PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>[...]
>>> And, yes, all of this privacy loss happens because somebody decided
>>> it was convenient to put a car-ownership-tax receipt on the outside
>>> of a car so police can quickly decide if you've paid your taxes...
>>> The rest of it's just implementation details.
>>
>>Of course, you could just confine your driving to private roads, and
>>leave the license plate off. 
>
>Sabotaging your plates so they weren't machine readable or using a car 
>registered in Slovenia or Wisconsin (both possible in the UK) would make
more 
>sense.
>

remember those purple neon "chaser" lights that people used to put around
thier plates to to make them harder to read and bounce lidar off of... dont
see them much anymore they probably went the way of blackout windows they
both make it harder for police to apprehend the dangerous criminals. In
fact if you get pulled over with blackout windows in NYC you might be
greeted by one of new yorks finest pointing a gun at you instead of the
ususal solem "liscense and registration please". I think that if the
government could make a case that mandatory brain removal would stop crime
most people would be all for it.