Does anyone know if these Smart Kards could be available via anonymous cash transactions, like european telephone cards? Would any of these companies be open to ideas? They don't list any address or references.... strick ------ Source: Computer underground Digest Sun Aug 22 1993 Volume 5 : Issue 64 ------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 12:19:00 BST From: grmeyer@GENIE.GEIS.COM Subject: File 4--CuNews ("Smart Kards," Comp Snooping at IRS/FBI, & more) Smart Kards Are Coming ====================== A group of corporations, including MasterCard, Visa, Citicorp, Amex, IBM, AT&T, Microsoft, and Apple, have formed the Smart Card Forum. The cross-industry group will promote the use of smart-card technology for payment, transit, health care, identification, and security applications. (Information Week August 9, 1993 pg 10)
Strick:
Does anyone know if these Smart Kards could be available via anonymous cash transactions, like european telephone cards?
Well, let's look at the applications.
The cross-industry group will promote the use of smart-card technology for
Not necessarily identifying identifying =========== =============== health care payment identification transit security My guess is that anonymity isn't even in their heads. Eric
On Mon, 23 Aug 1993, Eric Hughes wrote:
Strick:
Does anyone know if these Smart Kards could be available via anonymous cash transactions, like european telephone cards?
Well, let's look at the applications.
The cross-industry group will promote the use of smart-card technology for
Not necessarily identifying identifying =========== =============== health care payment identification transit security
My guess is that anonymity isn't even in their heads.
Eric
"Overpopulation has led to ever-increasing governmental control over the private citizen, not on the old-style police-state models of oppression and terror, but in terms of work, credit, housing, retirement benefits, and medical care: things which can be withheld. These services are computerized. No number, no service. However, this has not produced the brainwashed standardized human units postulated by such linear prophets as George Orwell. Instead, a large percentage of the population has been forced underground. How large, no one knows. These people are NUMBERLESS."
From _Blade Runner (a movie)_, William S. Burroughs, 1979, Blue Wind Press
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In <Pine.3.05.9308231918.D23466-b100000@stein.u.washington.edu> Steven Hodas <hhll@u.washington.edu> writes: Actually Burroughs...
"Overpopulation has led to ever-increasing governmental control over the private citizen, not on the old-style police-state models of oppression and terror, but in terms of work, credit, housing, retirement benefits, and medical care: things which can be withheld. These services are computerized. No number, no service. However, this has not produced the
From _Blade Runner (a movie)_, William S. Burroughs, 1979, Blue Wind Press
Actually I have work, credit, housing, retirement benefits, and medical care and they don't have my (right) numbers. Mostly they don't have any numbers. It is all still possible. Duncan Frissell Practicing & Preaching Privacy since at least 1969.
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