[89554] in Cypherpunks
Re: Protocols for Insurance to Maintain Privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Thu Nov 6 03:04:08 1997
In-Reply-To: <199711052249.QAA06301@email.plnet.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 23:25:33 -0700
To: "John Kelsey" <kelsey@plnet.net>, "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 11:58 AM -0700 11/5/97, John Kelsey wrote:
>I know. Let me make it clear that I am not at all
>interested in banning private testing, coercing insurance
>companies or anyone else into agreements they don't want to
>make, etc. I am saying it would be nice if I could buy
>insurance against the results of the tests before I took
>them. The problem is, I can't see a really workable way to
>do this, because there's no way to keep people from taking
>the test beforehand.
That's my point. Since there can be no way to determine if someone has had
themselves tested, such "wouldn't it be nice" scenarios are meaningless.
--Tim May
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