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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Oct 6 16:58:59 1999
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:00:49 -0400
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 9:04 AM -0700 on 10/6/99, NewsScan wrote:
> NOVELL WANTS TO HELP YOU MANAGE DIGITALYOU
> Novell, the networking company, is introducing a new service called
> "digitalme" that allows individuals to create online identity cards that can
> hold their passwords and other personal information used for registering at
> various Web sites. It could be used as an easy way to give friends or
> merchants information about such things as current address, clothing sizes,
> etc., and it is generally comparable to other services for managing personal
> information on the Web, including Microsoft's Passport, AOL's Quick
> checkout, Qpass, Clickmarks.com, and Zero-Knowledge. Novell chief executive
> Eric Schmidt believes that digitalme will be an important product for his
> company, but admits he's not sure exactly how things will develop. "Do we
> run this whole thing or share it? Don't know. How do you make money? Don't
> know." (Wall Street Journal 6 Oct 99)
> http://wsj.com/
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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'
