At 09:29 PM 7/9/2005, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
The Blue Card, so far as I can tell, was poorly thought out beyond its marketing potential. I knew some folks at Amex involved in the development of the system, and I did not get the impression they had much of a coherent idea of what the technologies would be used for other than creating marketing buzz.
On the other hand, only a short time before that, Apple's iMac created a whole marketing revolution and set of spinoff products and revitalized the company by coming out with a semi-transparent blue-green case that effectively packaged the Reality Distortion Field, and they were able to maintain the effect over several years by the radical introduction of several other semi-transparent colors. It'd be nice if good crypto and authentication methods could create a market for improved products, but hey, if blue-green translucent dancing pigs gets customers, the marketing people have done _their_ job. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]