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Re: End of the line for Ireland's dotcom star
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Wed Sep 24 20:02:32 2003
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:43:42 -0400
To: "Anton Stiglic" <astiglic@okiok.com>, <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
At 1:15 PM -0400 9/24/03, Anton Stiglic wrote:
>Interestingly, last time I checked, it was cheaper to buy from Thawte than
>it was from Verisign directly.
Oh. That's easy.
The certificate doesn't say "Verisign" on it.
The mystification of identity is a hallmark of any hierarchical society.
Cheers,
RAH
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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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