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It's a really funny, whimsical thing to do, but how will this help you to increase your privacy? Next time you enter the US your finger prints won't match the data on your passport, right?


They'll also be a perfect match to the last nutjob who filed off his own fingerprints before mailing letterbombs to the IRS.

It probably only increases your chance of being detained, probed and investigated. Unless you file off your face, they can still tell who you are.

Rather than adapting your body to quietly live within the 'instruments of control', why not actively campaign against them?


Why not do both?


Doh, I just realize Jacques won't be replying, since he retired from HN last week...


Some of us haven't gotten passports, or been fingerprinted yet. This may be analogous Schmidt's child/adult quip.




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