Re: IETF 62 (was: Re: first steps)

["Dick St.Peters" <[e-mail]>]

Henrik Levkowetz writes:
> I have no illusions about the fingerprints taken when I come to
> IETF61 not finding their way into the US fingerprint data bases
> which now, I believe, mostly hold fingerprints of criminals and
> people who have been arrested and booked.  Bah.

Not that I want to defend the policy, but my fingerprints have been on
file since my first security clearance in 1964.  I've always viewed
this as a benefit ... I could prove who I am should that ever become
necessary.  Being that I'm not a criminal and never had any desire to
become one, having my prints on file has never had any downside.

Having private entities keeping track of me has always seemed far more
threatening than having government keep track.  Perhaps that comes
from having lived with benign governments and not-alway-so-benign
private businesses.

--
Dick St.Peters, [e-mail] 
Gatekeeper, NetHeaven, Saratoga Springs, NY

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