Simon Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 01:27:17 +0000, Ian G wrote:
MF takes WebTrust. Yes it costs. So what? Your point is
that people who can't afford to pay the piper should get
a free ride? Perhaps we should go to the government and
ask for a handout?
You would be much better off concentrating on why a
costly model like WebTrust doesn't serve the browser
user ... rather than throwing out hand-me-down socialistic
misconceptions about The Man and his evil Dollar.
Ah, here we have it; Everyone must pay to play and anyone who wants free
software is a communist. Gates paraphrased here, in a newsgroup for an OSI
approved free software project, by you.
That's the meat in your "argument", yes. Now,
if you stopped hyperventilating for a moment,
you could consider why it is that this is a sucky
situation.
1. The presumption is that only a trusted third
party can authenticate people on the net,
2. the authentication is needed for secure
transactions,
3. this trusted third party has to be paid for
their efforts,
4. people are too dumb to know when to go to
this TTP, so they have to be forced to by the
way the software is constructed to not accept
any compromises,
5. the only thing we need is an authenticated
connection to secure credit cards (or was it
banking? maybe that's what it was).
6. as long as everyone does the right thing it
will work.
Now, every one of those statements is more or
less a foundation stone in secure browsing.
(There might be some I missed, it's late here.)
Here's the game: you get points if you manage
to take even one of those and show it to be
true, false, or somewhere in between.
Despite your protestations otherwise elsewhere in this thread, we can
conclude now that you have illustrated the essential point.
Right. The structure is pay to play. Everyone
knows that, I gather. But to shift away from
that current status quo requires more than
... er, what you're offering.
iang
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