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January 26, 2004

Dean's bad idea

Declan reports on a bad idea put forward by Dean 15 months before he announced his run for the presidency (and six months after 9/11): Requiring users to insert an identity card — presented as an upgrade of today's drivers license — into a computer in order to log on. Apparently, the campaign is not responding to questions about this. It's certainly not an idea I've heard bruited about by the campaign, but I'm certainly not privy to every bruiting. (Thanks to Eric for the link.)

Dana Blankenhorn responds. (Ignore the nice thing he says about me.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at January 26, 2004 11:30 AM

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See also

http://theregister.com/content/6/35126.html

Whenever you read one of these article with the byline "Declan McCullagh", pull out the bag of rock-salt - you need far more than a grain of salt for them.

Posted by: Seth Finkelstein | January 27, 2004 04:03 AM

No, don't ignore the nice things I say about David. And I'm not taking them back, either. So there.

Posted by: Dana Blankenhorn | January 29, 2004 08:48 AM

Why have a card...? the goverment can see what your doing anyway....

Posted by: toni | February 3, 2004 02:02 PM

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