[NetBehaviour] Security at What Cost?

[marc garrett]

Hi Bernie,

Firstly, welcome to the Netbehaviour list...

I hope that you will find it fruitful & of interest and stimulation.

 >If there's some place to learn more about this list, I'd be interested.

Did you find the networked art list by the way?

marc
> Hi all, I'm new on this list.  I had read Marc's
> interview with Verschooren and looked up a list for
> network art.  If there's some place to learn more
> about this list, I'd be interested.  
>
> In the meantime, I'd like to toss of a comment about
> the article forwarded here.  Since the early 19th
> century some form of the id card has been in the
> making and will continue to preoccupy diverse segments
> of society.  Photography quickly became a means of
> collecting visual data and assessing various risk
> populations.  It is only to be expected that digital
> means replace mechanical ones.  Security has also long
> been an easy means of persuading people to submit to a
> disciplining regimen and to acquiesce in the
> collection of data about minority groups.  What we
> need to think about are the ways in which individuals
> manage to subvert or evade this process.  
>
> Bernie
>
>
>
> --- marc garrett <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Bruce Schneier: Security at What Cost?
>>
>> National ID System Is Not Worth The $23 Billion
>> Price Tag.
>>
>> he argument was so obvious it hardly needed
>> repeating: We would all be 
>> safer if we had a better ID card. A good,
>> hard-to-forge national ID is a 
>> no-brainer (or so the argument goes), and it's
>> ridiculous that a modern 
>> country such as the United States doesn't have one.
>> One result of this 
>> line of thinking is the planned Real ID Act, which
>> forces all states to 
>> conform to common and more stringent rules for
>> issuing driver's licenses.
>>
>> But security is always a tradeoff; it must be
>> balanced with the cost. We 
>> all do this intuitively. Few of us walk around
>> wearing bulletproof 
>> vests. It's not because they're ineffective, it's
>> because for most of 
>> us, the tradeoff isn't worth it. It's not worth the
>> cost, the 
>> inconvenience, or the loss of fashion sense.
>>
>> According to the Department of Homeland Security's
>> own estimates, Real 
>> ID will cost Americans around $23 billion. So is
>> this a good tradeoff 
>> for us -- are the security benefits worth the price
>> tag?
>>
>> When most people think of ID cards, they think of a
>> small plastic card 
>> with their name and photograph. This isn't wrong,
>> but it's only a small 
>> piece of any ID program. What starts out as a
>> seemingly simple security 
>> device -- a card that binds a photograph with a name
>> -- rapidly becomes 
>> a complex security system.
>>
>> http://www.schneier.com/essay-207.html
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