Mercury News: Oracle boss urges national ID cards, offers free software. Under (Larry) Ellison’s proposal, millions of Americans would be fingerprinted and the information would be placed on a database used by airport security officials to verify identities of travelers at airplane gates.
You can count on the people running America’s biggest companies to do their part as we recover from the Sept. 11 attacks. You can also count on corporate America’s willingness to take opportunistic advantage of this new climate of fear. Ellison is almost a perfect fit for the politicians who would use this crisis to dismantle the Bill of Rights.
Ellison’s ID card and database would never be limited to airport screening. It would become part of a pervasive surveillance system that would end more than two centuries of tradition, and take a gigantic slice out of liberty.
How quickly do you think this system would be hacked? I’d give it about a year at the outside.
Aren’t there any other Silicon Valley executives who will refute this stuff? If not, we’re all in deep, deep trouble.