My Google Galaxy Nexus already has NFC, and being 6 months old is close to obsolete. It is very likely the next iPhone will support NFC as well. Not even considering the future possibilities of Bitcoin, it is fairly clear that everything in your wallet, credit cards, photo id (retina or thumb scans using your phone's camera, anyone?), tickets, cash, etc. will be integrated into your smartphone within the next 5-10 years. Peer to peer decentralisation and strong encryption is the way to keep big brother out of all of it. Gary -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE