On 15 Oct 2003 at 21:33, The Fool wrote: > <<http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/>>
Quick points: Only a few UK broadband services have any limits on what you can run, and a large minority of them give you a static (or "sticky" IP address). Objecting to public/private key encryption? Novel. *blinks* It's use in TCA is unrelated to the vast majority of legitimate uses. And the user-acceptance of TCA is VERY much up-in-the-air. It's very legality is certainly in question, at least in Europe. Micropayments: There are allready ways to pre-purchase some kinds of tokens for this, and this sort of idea will likely spread. As for websites charging per-page...only UNIQUE content will survive, as the internet bubble proved. I like those sidebars, by the way. He confused American law with European if he thinks, over here, a EULA is worth the paper it's printed on. Oh, and caller ID is trivial to obscure over here. Encryption. Sure, if you want to shut out slower connections. There is overhead involved. Considerable overhead, usually. So you want to lose the narrowband (and even midband) access? Go right ahead. Ditto anyone on broadband with a poor connection to your website. Oops? "For example, when circulating an E-mail draft of a scientific paper to a group of colleagues for comment, you may wish to "license it" exclusively to their certificates to prevent further dissemination should one of them prove indiscreet. " Yes, and you can capture the screen and OCR it as well. And yes, you can use screen capture utilities which work at the OS level, so you WON'T be able to block em. The hooks they use HAVE to be there for use for a number of reasons. If you can see it, it can be captured. As for signing, I'll sign my own, as ever. If people don't want to view my content, that is THEIR issue, not mine. (Ask the people who used "spam blocker" lists who blocked my emails when I had ebay business with them. I'm under NO obligation to deal with them, and indeed leave savage negative feedback). He's amusing, but in the end he's talking about America. And ONLY America. A lot of what he describes will be cracked in 10 minutes as well. TCA as a technology is completely unproven, remember, and the fantasy that everything will require certificates and encryption is just that. The idea that criminals would RUN half these apps is amusing as well, if futile.There are also PLENTY of ways to use these technologies to strike back, in the early stages. One or two VERY public incidents can easily ruin a company. And there are people out there who can and will stage them. And "for the children"? http://www.plif.com/archive/wc161.gif (worksafe, unlike most of PLIF) One of my current projects is a roleplaying game called "Children of a Moralist Generation..." Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
