Re: ID Cards and enforced bio-metrics
When you consider the odds of being a target of a terrorist, or terrorist group for the 99%, they're pretty damned low. When you are one of the 1%, that becomes much higher. It's not just their lives that are under threat, it's their assets. Toss the black hats into that calculation of odds when it comes to assets. Then look at threats to corporations, government and non-governmental infrastructures and services, the exposure is higher although the regular public is threatened as well. And that's before we get into state actors and their agents, whether official or no.
An incredible amount of resources are being directed at this. The politicians are of course first on the list, of course, since the power of wealth effects them more directly. The public gets in on the act whether on a "law and order" basis or for other less palatable reasons.
This happens to be a casebook example of power-conflict in action. I wish them as much luck at getting their was as King Canute but, sadly, I expect them to get their was eventually. As someone pointed out before, Public as frogs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
