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Re: Activation protocol for tracking devices

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ioannidis)
Mon Mar 2 19:00:44 2009

Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:18:11 -0500
From: John Ioannidis <ji@tla.org>
To: Santiago Aguiar <santiago.aguiar@gmail.com>, 
 Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <9D33BC60-AD42-4915-AE42-88DC2A9D5980@lrw.com>

As it has been pointed out numerous times on this and other places, this 
is a singularly bad idea.

The crypto isn't even the hardest part (and it's hard enough).

Just don't do it.  If you are going to spend your energy on anything, it 
should be to work against such a plan.

/ji

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