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The HN libertarians, for some reason, have an incredibly strongly held conviction that governments should not be able to identify their citizens, even in person
by superuser2 12y ago
The HN libertarians, for some reason, have an incredibly strongly held conviction that governments should not be able to identify their citizens, even in person, even for legitimate reasons. If you support any reasonably secure government-operated authentication system on HN, you will be downvoted to oblivion (as you just were).
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- superuser2 12y agoWhat argument?
- pjc50 12y agogovernments should not be able to identify their citizens This is subtly different from "citizens can authenticate themselves to the government". Universal identity systems result in no place to hide from the system, which can be used against people that the government (or individual corrupt officials!) doesn't like.
- nickff 12y ago>"reasonably secure government-operated authentication system" Do you believe that the government can keep private information on a need-to-know basis? There is a lot of evidence they cannot.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
- tptacek 12y agoI'm not a libertarian (for HN, in fact, I qualify as a statist) and I have a problem with universal identification. I thought we had a decent balance struck before Hiibel.