Microsoft Passport fades away

2004-10-23 Thread Jerrold Leichter
>From Computerworld: Microsoft Scales Back Passport Ambitions Microsoft's decision to reposition its .Net Passport identification system comes as Monster.com is dropping support for the authentication service. http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902

RE: Are new passports [an] identity-theft risk?

2004-10-23 Thread Whyte, William
> R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > > > > > An engineer and RFID expert with Intel claims there is > little danger of > > unauthorized people reading the new passports. Roy Want > told the newssite: > > "It is actually quite hard to

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

2004-10-23 Thread dan
| > What machine, attached to a network, using a web browser, and | > sending and receiving mail, would you trust? | | I would suggest pursuing work along the lines of a Virtual Machine Monitor | (VMM) like VMWare. This way you can run a legacy OS, even Windows, | alongside a high securi

Patriot Act redux?

2004-10-23 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Patriot Act redux? By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/Patriot+Act+redux/2010-1071_3-5414087.html Story last modified October 18, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT With Election Day fast approaching, it was only a matter of time before

Re: Crypto blogs?

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Callas
On 18 Oct 2004, at 12:49 PM, Hal Finney wrote: Does anyone have pointers to crypto related weblogs? Bruce Schneier recently announced that Crypto-Gram would be coming out incrementally in blog form at http://www.schneier.com/blog/. I follow Ian Grigg's Financial Cryptography blog, http://www.fina

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

2004-10-23 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
Ian Grigg wrote: James A. Donald wrote: we already have the answer, and have had it for a decade: store it on a trusted machine. Just say no to Windows XP. It's easy, especially when he's storing a bearer bond worth a car. What machine, attached to a network, using a web browser, and sending a

How to store the car-valued bearer bond? (was Financial identity...)

2004-10-23 Thread Ian Grigg
Aaron Whitehouse wrote: None. But a machine that had one purpose in life: to manage the bearer bond, that could be trusted to a reasonable degree. The trick is to stop thinking of the machine as a general purpose computer and think of it as a platform for one single application. Then secure that m

Re: Are new passports [an] identity-theft risk?

2004-10-23 Thread Adam Shostack
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:01:16AM -0400, Whyte, William wrote: | | > R.A. Hettinga wrote: | > > | > | > | > > An engineer and RFID expert with Intel claims there is | > little danger of | > > unauthorized people reading the