Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Books, movies, art, theater, conservation, and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline. 
|
I retired a few items from the top of the sidebar, including netiquette rant, because, fortunately, all of my correspondents seem to have picked up the clue phone.
|
|
You know, this might explain why I had trouble using a credit card to buy a laptop last year, the same credit card that I'd used to buy two (more costly) desktop Macs years before. A Providence, R.I. couple had a payment to their credit card account frozen by Homeland Security because it was an exceptionally large amount.
Eventually, [Walter Soehnge] and his wife's money was freed up. The Soehnges were apparently found not to be promoting global terrorism under the guise of paying a credit-card bill. They never did learn how a large credit card payment can pose a security threat.
But the experience has been a reminder that a small piece of privacy has been surrendered. Walter Soehnge, who says he holds solid, middle-of-the-road American beliefs, worries about rights being lost. (Thanks to The Morning News.)
|
|
«Prev Next»
Conditions at IAD
 D. Gorsline, Proprietor
   
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
