On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:11:18 -0700, you wrote:
At 10:05 PM -0700 9/11/97, James S. Tyre wrote:
So, the last rhetorical question -- how do you convince someone who's never used a browser (the vast majority of the voting populace, I'd think) why crypto is important?
When I walk through South-of-Market in San Francisco and hear people trading URL in conversation as the walk down the street and see URLs on TV, Billboards and even the side of busses, I wonder if this assumption is really true.
A lot of these are the same people who think nothing of giving their Credit Card numbers over the phone. Or use the word "SECRET" for a password. Until they get burned, they don't think about the problem. -Doug ------------------- Douglas L. Peterson mailto:fnorky@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/1271/