NY Offering the Enhanced Drivers License 9/16/08

[Nikuk]

The Passport alternative for Canada / Mexico / Caribbean

http://www.amny.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--driverslicenses0915sep15,0,3362093.story

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The new licenses will contain an identifying computer chip and can be used instead of a more expensive passport at U.S. land and sea border crossings between Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean.

The licenses will cost around $80, about $30 more than a regular driver’s license.

[AKA-FERRARI]

well worth the extra 30

[tpgsr]

And I just paid like 160 for a passport FUCK

[EvilJay]

INB4SOMEHACKERSTEALSMYIDENTITYFROMTHEMICROCHIP

[Nikuk]

@AKA-FERRARI

well worth the extra 30

true.

but, I’ll be sure to carry around my paper license and leave the RFID at home unless I plan on crossing the borders.

[Karter]

inb4 they can track you via chip.

[rage87]

FUCK I wish they had this in California.

[Tevenor]

So how does this keep the border secure exactly? If a license wasn’t good enough because “anyone” good get them and the border required more Citizenship proof, so is the expectation that terrorists won’t be able to afford the extra $50 to get the “ultra mega license 3000 w/ julienne fry attachment”? If the requirements for a license are the same for the standard and the ultra mega version w/ free border pass, then isn’t that just opening the same hole all over again?

Or am I missing something?

[Clean_Baldy]

Totally getting this tomorrow. I’ve been holding off on getting a passport…

[newman]

Every American citizen should have a passport.

[Haenszel]

@Tevenor

So how does this keep the border secure exactly? If a license wasn’t good enough because “anyone” good get them and the border required more Citizenship proof, so is the expectation that terrorists won’t be able to afford the extra $50 to get the “ultra mega license 3000 w/ julienne fry attachment”? If the requirements for a license are the same for the standard and the ultra mega version w/ free border pass, then isn’t that just opening the same hole all over again?

Or am I missing something?

dude, it has a computer chip… I mean C’MON!!!

[Clean_Baldy]

@newman

Every American citizen should have a passport.

Then they should be handed out at birth…

[Nikuk]

@Tevenor

So how does this keep the border secure exactly? If a license wasn’t good enough because “anyone” good get them and the border required more Citizenship proof, so is the expectation that terrorists won’t be able to afford the extra $50 to get the “ultra mega license 3000 w/ julienne fry attachment”? If the requirements for a license are the same for the standard and the ultra mega version w/ free border pass, then isn’t that just opening the same hole all over again?

Or am I missing something?

you’re not missing anything. It is the same requirements. :roll:

@newman

Every American citizen should have a passport.

What about american citizens who’ve recently lost one? We have no intl trips planned for at least two years, so this convenience is a nice option.

[newman]

yeah, maybe in a pinch, but i still always want to have a passport…

[Clean_Baldy]

@newman

yeah, maybe in a pinch, but i still always want to have a passport…

Just incase the goverment catches up with the illegal activities, you can hop on a plane to anywhere?

Good thinking.

[Pauly]

@tpgsr

And I just paid like 160 for a passport FUCK

Ditto!

[Nikuk]

@Pauly

Ditto!

Did you miss a memo or something?

[boxxa]

Sweet. Need to go to the DMV this week for my car registration. Will grab one of these too.

[Pauly]

@Nikuk

Did you miss a memo or something?

Actually we were supposed to be the guinny pigs for the program, but it never happened. I did read an email or something about getting one for free, but i’m soooooo (lol) busy at work i never got around to it. That and the whole already having a passport thing

[micah]

i’m so glad i got my passport in '05