Hi, On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:04:02AM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 24/09/2009 08:38, Gert Doering wrote: > >Fill in a web form once, claim "yes, I'm no terrorist!", and then the > >FTP servers put you into a "he's no terrorist, may download crypto > >software" group... > > > >This is really "Internet 0.9" knowledge. > > You're ignoring the possibility that people change over time. What if a > person was a regular joe soap on the day that they filled out this web > form, but had become a terrorist within a short period of time? How would > your single form proposal cope with this, pray tell? Filling in the > terrorism / nuclear arms shipment / bioweapons form each time is designed > precisely to deal with smart alecs who think that they can get around arms > embargoes like this.
Well. You sound very serious, but I'm *sure* that you're making fun of me. (Of course, terrorists would never lie regarding the "I'm no terrorist!" statement). gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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