Those signing devices you refer to should not be limited to ecom. Face to face transaction need something similar. "Who is this person checking my signature and what qualification do they have?" I ask this question every time, especially this time of year after the fear mongering of the Associations to encourage checking of cards . We should not limit solutions to one medium this creates differences in our payment habits and further confuses the masses, lemmings that they are. To find a secure solution that does not bridge multiple mediums will go the path of SET.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Boyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: Re: eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam > > >The world's largest online auction site eBay has been targeted by > >fraudsters using a shadow site to steal credit card details from its 55 > >million customers. > > Haha. No doubt, this story will be published in all the media, > internet, print, radio and TV as another case of "identity theft", > to misdirect consumer rage against the perps instead of banks. > > Who are the Identity thieves when we, the customers, are > denied any technology in which we would create and maintain > our own keypairs? Why is all Identity issued from the top > down, maintained on central databases, when people are > sovereign and autonomous creatures in nature? Banks have > stolen our Identities, and aggregated our reputations and > credit as their own. > > Individuals should be provided with signing devices immediately, > without further delay. People who have lifetimes of good behavior > and honoring their promises will race to use the studly things, > reaching unheard of lower prices and better terms of trade. > > Losers will remain with cash, checking and credit cards creating > a death spiral of higher costs for the Identity thieves (the banks). > > Todd >
