Stardate 20011010.1744 (On Screen): Larry Ellison really seems to have been serious about
his proposal to create a single national database to hold all government information about citizens in one place, along with digitally encoded ID cards which would key that data. He claims that part of the reason that the WTC attack was able to happen was because authorities couldn't find the data on them in time.
The single thing that we could do to make life tougher for terrorists would be to ensure that all the information in myriad government databases was integrated into a single national file. In other words, if we were just living in a police state, we'd be safe. Thanks, Larry, but no thanks.
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