1) You only get a crippled phone if you want the operator to chip in. Pay full price
on High Street and buy the phone you want.
2) Same is true for cards. Buy your own card and become the issuer.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Cheers, Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Bender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 10/27/2004 6:32 PM
To: Peter Tomlinson
Cc: MUSCLE
Subject: Re: [Muscle] Some javacard questions
Peter Tomlinson wrote:
> Like you say in your footer, Michael: Never give up! Never surrender!
Yeah, but that refers to faster-than-light travel in a spaceship
modeled after a TV show and commanded by has-been actors, Peter :-).
> If we get multi-app cards into the hands of the citizen, why cannot they
> put what they want (within reason) into them?
For the same reason that cellular providers like Verizon cripple
Motorola bluetooth phones and force the consumer (at least in the
US) to only use "approved and verified" phones on the cellular
network - $$$.
I know that for a number of smartcard-based projects that I am
working on that use card provided by other organizations, it sure
would be nice to have a few tens or hundreds of bytes of storage
that my app could use on the card!
> The big battle at the moment is to get card holder authentication using
> smart cards sorted out.
<CYNIC MODE>
Sure, we've only been working on that problem since 1978 or so.
</CYNIC MODE>
mike
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