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Re: WYTM - "but what if it was true?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Wed Jun 29 17:17:52 2005
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From: dan@geer.org
To: Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@MorganStanley.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:47:20 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:00:16 -0400
Victor Duchovni writes:
| ...
| The personal ATM appliance should be difficult to tamper with and should
| accept only a single set of accounts (so that stolen pin numbers are not
| portable)...
My personal guess is that the general purpose
computer is ultimately a goner -- it will later,
if not sooner, be legally treated much like having
a swimming pool if not a 50 caliber. ("Honest people
don't need a compiler or admin privilege" is already
true in the corporate arena...) Either that, or
network-admittance will become the focus of authority
and liability (also already true in corporate arenas).
Probably a rat hole,
--dan
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