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Lie in X.509, Go to Jail, Pt. III (Was Re: Edupage, 29 October
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Nov 1 17:11:35 1999
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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:19:07 -0500
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 1:55 PM -0600 on 10/29/99, EDUCAUSE wrote:
> ACTIVISTS DECRY BILLS ON 'DIGITAL SIGNATURE'
> Consumer groups are up in arms over two bills in Congress, the
> Millennium Digital Commerce Act and the Electronic Signatures in
> Global and National Commerce Act, that would give digital
> signatures equal legal footing with traditional signatures. The
> bills, one in the House and one in the Senate, undermine the
> effectiveness of state consumer-protection laws and do not
> provide the same consumer protections as those given to
> traditional paper records. The Senate bill leaves out key state
> and federal consumer protections and interferes "with a state's
> rights to protect its own consumers, without imposing any
> protections against misuse, mistake, or fraud," says a letter
> from the National Consumer Law Center. The White House has
> soured on the Senate bill due to the effect it will have on
> consumer protections and regulations, while Commerce Department
> General Counsel Andrew J. Pincus says both the House and Senate
> versions would have a devastating effect on state and federal
> consumer protections. "Unscrupulous people" will be able to use
> the bills to their advantage by preying on online consumers,
> leading to a loss of consumer confidence in the Internet,
> predicts Pincus. (Washington Post 10/29/99)
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... 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'
