Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

From: Tony Rabiola argent1@****.com
Subject: Human barcodes
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:22:15 -0500
> In SR terms, that would be hard as hell to legislate, way too many
sinless.
>
> Not to mention the modern day groups who frown on ANY sort of body
> tattooing, as a result of WW2. While the SR timeline may be 62 years
ahead,
> that is one thing I doubt would lessen by then.
>
> Barcoded metahumans... With the tech available to the populace, I can
> easily see 'forged' barcodes.
>
> Removing barcodes to be a Shadowrunner?
>

What about an invisible bar code, say one everyone has at the same location
on their person; think of the UV stamps or the like used in various venues.
Sinless would not have them, and would make a market for temporary tatoos of
that sort.

Argent

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.