Another interesting point by Svenson (who has tons of great ideas!):

If SS #’s are a matter of “public record” they have no VALUE to identify you. This also means that they have no value to identity theives.

Its the same with credit card numbers or anything else. Once one becomes widely known, its value depletes by bank shutdown or drained money. This is because information is still wrongly viewed as a physical commodity, and scarcity/demand vs supply rules apply. So secrecy creates information “value”, (as with SS#s ket secret) but its an artificial value, because its propped up by enforced scarcity, ie secrecy. This makes it infinitely more delicate than normal market scarcity, such as with a physical commodity.

This delicacy is unique in that it applies to the WHOLE system. If enough SS#s are public, the whole system of using them as identifiers shuts down. If enough credit records are flawed, the whole credit system comes down.

Is this true? Is this the secret of state/corporate monopoly of identity? Is this a dangerous idea to post online and associate yourself with? Guess, we’ll find out, eh? Who wants to volunteer to make their credit, banking, SSN, schooling and public records open-source to test this idea out - anybody?

What if we formed an “art collective” to all legally find ways to share open-source identities which have been “sacrificed” to the public good?

See also: Creatively Escaping Money, He Advances Irresistibly, Attacking Emptiness.

PS. The fusion engine is suppressed because it is dangerous as a symbol, not dangerous as a technology.

PPS. If you have the time and inclination, please download and store off-line in a safe location copies of my website and any other websites which you find valuable. I am thinking about storing freely accessible “clean” source versions of my database online…