At 19:02 5/11/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
I doubt that will work even were it implemented. Every phone on the planet and terminal would need to constantly do biometric analysis of every user, and even then people could program their terminals to lie.
Telling your terminal to lie will be rather difficult once the CPU refuses to run an OS with out propper signatures. The OS in turn won't run applications without such signatures. All commercial software has to undergo code review by CAs. Your machine won't even run anything but approved software. Should you think about keeping an old machine around that does, my advice would be: don't. At least not unless you are willing to face the ten years prison term mandatory for such a computer crime. Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, not those of my employer. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.