From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 09:04:26 MST
--- Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
> Christian Weisgerber
> >Eventually, I read in the newspaper that the American forces had
> >started issuing stealth license plates that largely look like German
> >ones, but with the otherwise unassigned initial codes AD and AF.
> >I can add HK to that list. Also, in place of the little D/EU logo
> >they have the NATO one, but that's hard to see from a distance.
> >The basic idea had some merit, but the implementation is pretty
> >silly. The big crosshairs is still there
>
> These HK license plates are very common in and around Heidelberg. I
> suppose I am sensitively tuned into the differences between the
> cultures, that
> I didn't need to think who belonged to the HK license plates- I knew
> immediately and I could not point to the specific thing that clued
> me in. I agree, they are not exactly stealth, in fact the opposite.
Unless the military decides to issue authentication transponders, like
the FastPass devices, they will continue to need some sort of visual
rapid authentication device. When a base is at a low security level,
with lots of traffic entering and leaving, gate guards need some visual
cue to determine quickly if a vehicle is authorized to enter the base
or not. Otherwise, traffic pileups do occur and people, especially high
ranking people, get annoyed. The desire to protect personnel while off
base from harassment or attack directly conflicts with this need to
rapidly osmose traffic securely at base gates.
I expect that military personnel will be the first population segment
that is embedded with subdermal ID chip technologies, including family
members of military members who live in base housing or use base
facilities. These will include short range transponders to allow rapid
authentication by automatic means at base gates as well as more
pervasive compartementation of secure areas on bases with varying
security needs at different facilities. This will allow a reduction in
security police staffing to focus on perimeter defense and more in
depth checking of those without such ID.
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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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