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Re: Smartcard anonymity patents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Jablon)
Thu Feb 24 18:44:03 2000
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:26:12 -0500
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
From: David Jablon <dpj@IntegritySciences.com>
Cc: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
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At 10:44 PM 2/24/00 +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
>lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
>> What are the prospects for smartcard based systems within the U.S.? Such
>> cards are essentially nonexistent in commerce. Apparently in Europe and
>> Asia they are widely used, though, instead of the credit cards preferred
>> by Americans.
>
>I wouldn't go so far as that! I have a wide selection of traditional
>credit cards, and not very many smartcards. Almost all the smartcards I
>have are either in my phone or my TV. I do have a Mondex card, but I've
>yet to activate it, let alone use it. I have never used a smartcard for
>a financial transaction. I do use credit cards frequently, though.
Indeed. At least in the personal computer space, I've heard that
smart-card deployment is negligible in the US, Europe, and everywhere.
Sure, I ordered my free AmEx Blue, out of sheer cypherpunk curiousity.
But I haven't been motivated enough to actually install it.
Does anyone have any data on PC-based smart-card reader deployment
anywhere in the world?
-- dpj
