Urban Legend Debunked: Howard Dean and Microchip ID to use the Internet

[Hawkeye-X]

A friend writes:
With Declan McCullough's mixture of "cute" remarks mixed in with a little paranoia, his literary stretch to indict Howard Dean as someone who has a secret penchant to invade your privacy comes up a little short.

Under the circumstances, and after reviewing the CMU speech, I'm more
prone to wonder about McCullough's contribution to the art form of smear politics rather than Howard Dean's "secret agenda to take away your right to privacy".

That said, does the subject then become: an editorial overview of a
symposium on state computer system(s) security? Or..... the ongoing
defamation of Howard Dean?

In reading McCullough's misrepresentations, I would aver to embrace the latter. The issue Dean addressed at the CMU symposium was the subject of state networks computer data security, individual privacy balance, and the underlying topic of vital records security and personal identity theft. Not the reverse, as indicated by Mr. McCullough's factual misrepresentations.

Here's a link to both the speech in question:

http://www.wave.com/news/press_archive/02/CarnegieMellon-DeanSpeech.pdf

and the workshop agenda itself:

http://www.wave.com/news/press_archive/02/StatesAgenda.pdf

Please read the entire speech, and in both it's subjective , technical
and historical contexts. In doing so, you'll get a pretty good idea of
not only what Dr. Dean actually said in an empirical context, or the
explicit purposes of the CMU affair itself, but also gain a great lesson in the elevated art form of contemporary political identity theft, by none other than CNET News.com's Washington, D.C., correspondent.

SAA Reference:

Carnegie Mellon Hosts Security Workshop on Vulnerable State Networks and Databases

Wave Systems Corporation

Dean Called For Microchip ID Card to Use the Internet
CNet News

After Howard Dean's unexpected defeat last week in Iowa, public
attention has focused on his temper, his character, and that guttural
Tyrannosaurus bellow of his not-quite-a-concession speech. But Dean's
views on Americans' privacy rights may be a superior test of his fitness to be president.

Dean's current stand on privacy appears to leave little wiggle room: His campaign platform pledges unwavering support for "the constitutional principles of equality, liberty and privacy."


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"I started this campaign for the presidency with the simple notion that America can be better." - Howard Dean November 18, 2003

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[slinkerwink]

1. kick

[HuckleB]

2. Gracias!

Interesting that so few want to read the real story.