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Re:India’s Downward Spiral by superuser2 on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @04:25AM (#8486427)
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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Re:India’s Downward Spiral by pjc50 on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @04:53AM (#8486496)
governments 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.

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Re:India’s Downward Spiral by tptacek on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @12:54PM (#8488283)
I'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.
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Re:India’s Downward Spiral by nickff on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @12:25PM (#8488112)
>"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

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Re:India’s Downward Spiral by superuser2 on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @04:34AM (#8486442)
What argument?
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