Suplantación de Identidades en Twitter en Busca de Audiencia

Como tantas veces he mencionado: Twitter es lo que quieras que Twitter sea, el problema es cuando al saber del poder que tiene este micro-blog para influenciar a la gente, algunas personas ven las oportunidades de audiencia y utilizan el engaño, haciéndose pasar por...

Some States Welcome National ID

This article pertains to a US law that has already been passed, a law most Americans know nothing about. The phrase "scope creep" that appears in this article is the perfect way to sum up the danger of national ID cards. Are your papers in order?(The RSA Conference is a...

Maine legislature rejects Real ID Act

Maine yesterday became the first state in the nation to officially decline to comply with the Real ID Act of 2005, the federal law that critics say lays the foundation for creation of a national identity card. Both houses of the state legislature - unanimously in the Senate,...

Supermarket asks man, 87, for ID

An 87-year-old man was asked to prove he was over 21 when he tried to buy a bottle of sherry in a York supermarket. The former Lord Mayor of York, Jack Archer, said he was shocked - but flattered - when asked the question by staff at Morrisons in Acomb. He said: "I don't look...

National ID won’t make us more secure

SAN FRANCISCO - A 2005 federal law requires states to issue standardized, machine-readable driver’s licenses by May 2008, in effect converting them to a national identification card that will be required to enter a federal building or fly on an airplane. The Department of...

The Constitutionality of Demanding ID for Air Travel

This hearing is taking place today, for any readers in the SF Bay Area. Even if found Constitutional (which it would not be), the efficacy of photo ID as a security tool is sketchy at best: for the policy to be effective, the somnolent rent-a-cop at the x-ray machine would...

National Id Card? Congress Approves Electronic Id Card

Effective May 2008, all Americans will be required to obtain federally approved ID cards containing electronically encoded personal information. The personal information will include your name, sex, address, date of birth and a digital photograph at a minimum. All of this...