I read in the New York Times that a lot of fundamentalist Christians fear the e-cash revolution because they believe that eventually everyone will be required to bear a tattooed bar code on their right hand which would contain all a person's information: name, d.o.b., birthplace, etc. Such a tattoo would also be used to deduct e-cash from a person's "account" when they made purchases. It's still a bit of a stretch; they're using the book of Revelations to back up this theory.
Ah, the perils of book entry. And they had the inventer of digital bearer certificates right there to talk to. Tsk. Tsk. Cheers, Bob ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell
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