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Is Howard Dean on his staff?

http://www.zdnet.com/news/howard-deans-smart-id-plan/133953

Fifteen months before Dean said he would seek the presidency, however, the former Vermont governor spoke at a conference in Pittsburgh co-sponsored bysmart-card firm WaveSystems where he called for state drivers' licenses to betransformed into a kind of standardized nationalID card for Americans. Embedding smart cards into uniform IDswas necessary to thwart "cyberterrorism" and identity theft, Deanclaimed. "We must move to smarter license cards that carry securedigital information that can be universally read at vital checkpoints,"Dean said in March 2002, according to a copy of his prepared remarks."Issuing such a card would have little effect on the privacy ofAmericans."

Dean also suggested that computer makers such as Apple Computer, Dell, Gateway and Sony should be required to include an ID card reader in PCs--and Americans would have to insert their uniform IDs into the reader before they could log on. "One state's smart-card driver's license must be identifiable by another state's card reader," Dean said. "It must also be easily commercialized by the private sector and included in all PCs over time--making the Internet safer and more secure."

[WePledge]

Damn, that sounds like the same plan a couple of libtards on a local radio show were touting here a few days ago. Scary stuff.