Jon Lasser writes:

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However, if you have optional linking of ID and name, shippers will only ship to keys with such attributes. Because just ID and address, it could be a "hit and run" type attack shipped to a safe maildrop.

At 03:19 AM 11/30/95 -0500, Futplex wrote:

People who steal credit cards prefer to order goods to be delivered somewhere they can grab them.

Presumably all of us seek a ecash and echeque system somewhat better than a human readable sixteen decimal digit number: Indeed, what I had in mind was 1024 binary bit number -- we should be working to a world in which a self generated secret PGP key performs the functions that a credit card number does today. (Often this is just the front of the rightful owner's

home, while Holly the Homeowner is off at work.) But that's just another reason to cut down unauthorized credit card charges, not a reason to restrict what a rightful cardholder can do with the card. I _want_ to be able to have stuff delivered to arbitrary locations, and I _don't_ want to give that up just to make it tough on thieves.

James Donald writes:

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This argument makes no sense at all: I am going to attack my enemies by paying people to send books, computers, and stuff to them?

Ordering hardcore porno videos to be sent to, say, somewhere in Tennessee might work pretty well in our sadly repressed society.

-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>

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