I predict the floppy smart card reader will be a dumb flop. Here's why:
Here's another one. These things are driven from watch batteries, rather
than from the computer's mains power.
There is at least one digital cash smartcard which draws sufficient
power that the battery life just isn't up
Arnold Reinhold wrote:
And what is the value proposition for the consumer? SSL works swell.
This is true iff :
(1) the consumer is an adult who has a credit card
(2) the consumer is content that the transaction is traceable through
their credit card statement
(3) the consumer is happy to
In message v04210104b40d7088a106@[24.218.56.100], Arnold Reinhold writes:
And what is the value proposition for the consumer? SSL works swell.
Bingo. Consumers will adopt this if and only if cost savings are passed on to
them, which in turn can only happen if the credit card companies (a)
I remember Ian, Adam, someone else and I talking about the
card-in-a-floppy thing at CFP '96.
Soulda, woulda, coulda, and all that...
Cheers,
RAH
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:50:44 -0500
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Subject: IP: Smart Cards with Chips
