Re: Implants

dvanhorn <[email protected]>
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In response I'd like to provide a few choice quotes from my presentation for
my undergraduate CS ethics class:

 * Privacy and security interests are best protected by documents serving
   limited purposes and by relying on multiple and decentralized systems of
   identification.

 * Centralizing authority over personal identity necessarily increases both
   the risk of ID theft as well as the scope of harm when ID theft occurs.

 * People who are easily and constantly tracked by a central authority are not
   free people.

The work I did for this class (with Jon Sullivan, Nick Bonfatti, both heads,
and Bridget Zurn) has really shaped my thoughts on digital civil liberties; I
come back to the themes of that presentation over and over again.  Our notes
for that presentation are online, and are damn good IMO:

   http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~dvanhorn/cs292.2002.sp/security_notes.pdf

David

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