Now that I can easily travel to San Francisco, you might think that I'm there all the time. Not so much. Only recently have I been going to the city, for my job(?). I think I've found the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals building. Which brings me to my story.

John Gilmore, you'll recall, is a dot-com millionaire and a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He's currently involved in a legal tiff with the government over his right to travel anonymously. The government says that there is a law on the books that requires passengers to produce identification to travel on airplanes, but the law is so top secret that Gilmore, a U.S. citizen who would like to obey the law, isn't allowed to see it.

Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held an open hearing regarding Gilmore's case -- and I missed it! Scott chided me for not going to the hearing, and I responded, "But I don't have Internet access!" I just got Internet access on Tuesday.

Fortunately, Boing Boing has a link to an audio file of the hearing. Also, for your perusing, papersplease.org has a list of legal documents pertaining to the case, which is now called Gilmore v. Gonzales.