On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, Adam Back wrote:
> The point is rather to switch to keys. I was resisting referencing it (as
> its impolite to point at your own designs with commercial backing (*)) but I
> guess it needs spelling out that yes you can do this, and yes it can be easy
> to use and secure. Check out oneid.com. [[...]]
>
> Its easy to use, just read the transaction confirmation on your smart phone
> and click a button, thats the user experience. [[...]]
How do I use this if I'm somewhere with no cellphone reception?
How do I use this if my cellphone just broke down?
How do I use this I've I've just landed in (say) Ireland and discovered
that my I-thought-it-was-unlocked cellphone is in fact locked to a Canadian
carrier and will only make emergency calls. (This happened to me a few
months ago. Even a locally-bought-in-Ireland simcard didn't work in
that phone.)
ciao,
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-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]"
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Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched
at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police
plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable
that they watched everybody all the time." -- George Orwell, "1984"
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