Forms of identity (Was RE: Open versus closed PKI systems)

[davidh@spidacom.co.uk]

On 17 May 01, at 13:34, Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:

> By checking your passport they can ensure that you are not one of
> those they believe to been involved in criminal activity.

Ensure is a very strong word. Can they? How?

People managed without passports for a long time. Indeed one of 
the scare stories of the 14-18 war was that German spies were 
passing between France and the UK freely because the nonsense 
of passports were not needed.



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