On 15/04/2008, Martin Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You haven't mentioned a physical size requiment. Untethered SIM cards > (and probably SD cards) are a tad small - and too easily lost. > > Also is security/privacy and reliability an issue?
These are all issues. I was thinking people would be given a pouch for the card, or keep the SIM as a full-size card (credit-card size). Privacy can be achieved at the software level via encryption. > Rather SIM - what about the phone itself. In 1st world countries we > are approaching 1:1 ratio. Provide you connect to the phone > (Bluetooth/GSM/IR) it is a pretty good storage device that people tend > to look after. (bCode uses this principle for it's ticketing scheme) There are no phones. We just want to use the SIM cards for storage. I should clarify: this is for millions of people in the developing world. They won't have computers, phones or any kind of reader. But they will have access to someone who has a computer that can read/write them. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
