17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote: [... much deleted but boiling down to: ]
Not a good journalistic trend, in my opinion.
Yah, but since 40-bit cyphers is seen by the "media" as something most people don't use, but "smart cards" are just another type of fraud-resistant credit card being used by Everyone Already, of course, they have to start a stampede now. I wonder if this isn't just plain Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt rearing its ugly head... does Lucent (they were the ones, right?) have a competing product? Phil Fraering The above is the opinion of neither my internet pgf@acadian.net service provider nor my employer. 318/261-9649