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Username checks out. Unfortunately, truth is spoken.

This is the danger inherent to full enumeration of the technologically enabled envelope. This is also the danger of the "market"; as it incentivized the ability to clearly specify the "who" of the customer.

It's why I've been getting increasingly uncomfortable with the economic push away from cash as the primary medium of economic exchange.

The death of the payphone marked the beginning of the end for infrastructure that wasn't in some way dependent or useful as a means of user surveillance.



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