[105157] in Cypherpunks
Identification and Privacy are not Antinomies (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Sat Nov 7 15:04:04 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 13:43:41 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 20:26:24 +0100
> From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
> Subject: Identification and Privacy are not Antinomies
> Am I a UK citizen, a good credit risk, a club member in good
> standing, etc. An appropriate mechanism, a smartcard, can easily
> authenticate both itself (challenge-response) and the bearer via a biometric
> and/or PIN without revealing the identity of the holder.
>
> However, who holds out hope that such a sensible
> thing would ever be adopted by the powers-that-be.
What the powers-that-be hold is realy irrelevant. The issue is what do we do
to make sure that the powers-that-are-to-be don't have that option?
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