Bruce Schneier points to a Washington Post article about the “Specially Designated Nationals List” (SDN), a.k.a. the “Bad Guy List.” Evidently everyone in the United States is supposed to make sure your name isn’t on the list before they sell you something. Meanwhile, I can’t even remember the last time a cashier bothered to check my signature when I used my credit card.

From the WaPo article:

The law prohibits anyone … from doing business with anyone whose name appears on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Specially Designated Nationals list … [A]ccording to the law, supermarkets, restaurants, pawnbrokers, real estate agents, everyone, even The Washington Post, is prohibited from doing business with anyone named on the list. “There is no minimum amount for the transactions covered by the OFAC requirement, so everyone The Post sells a paper to or a want ad to whose name appears on the SDN list is a violation … The law applies to you personally, as well.”

It’s a good thing those dastardly terrorists can’t obtain fake ID! Oh, wait.

Here’s the list.