-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- do you believe this? so what happened to our privacy? the man screams about privacy and encryption one minute, then:

What if I told you there's one easy thing you can do to make your 1998 Internet experiences simpler and safer? Get a digital ID.

Jesse Berst, ZDNet AnchorDesk, full story at http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_1324.html really?

Also called digital certificates, digital IDs (DIDs) are like electronic passports -- universal ID cards that prove your identity to anyone who needs to know. You get a DID from an independent certificate authority such as VeriSign, which performs a background check first.

just what I wanted, a fucking background check. nice schill, Jesse. OK, I'll call my broker and buy Verisign stock. they're going to be worth bocu bucks taking over the fascists' National ID project.

...Most Web servers have it already. Most email programs will have it by the end of the year. And both major browsers...

gee, that's clever. but The NYTimes, The Times [London], the Telegraph, and so on, already log me in immediately with a cookie I authorized. why do I need certified identity? even Wired mag knows me as Attila T. Hun. interNIC knows me as Attila T. Hun, I even get mail to my drop box as Attila T. Hun.... My check writer can even print checks as Attila T. Hun (the bank does not care what the name on the check is --just the MICR numbers).

...Your bank knows for sure that it's really you...

sure, after I enter my password... so what's the big deal? that's all I do now. automated, too.

Simpler Surfing. Sick of separate names and passwords for each site? A single DID will authenticate you for any site that supports the technology -- about 20,000 at last count, including Netscape Netcenter, Internet Shopping Network, K-Mart, Cellular One and many others.

OK, but I still must ID my system with my National-ID card available from the cookie wash. I dont see any place to turn it off! bastards! --they've implanted it under my skin. why? so big government or big business can really catalogue my political views by the stories I read? maybe it's my anti-authoritarian, psychotic behaviour and rants against fascist oligarchies, or, maybe because I post to Cypherpunks?

...you'll help the Internet make an important transition --from a fun place to surf to a safe place to do business.

aah haa! I knew there was a reason for all this hoopla! What's good for Bill Gate$ is good for the country. ...uuh, sorry Mr. AL (GM) $loan; I meant to quote you correctly: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."

A safer Internet is at hand. All you have to do is seize it.

no, jesse, you got that one wrong --the coy fascist dog F[reeh,uck] just seized you --and the rest of the suckers that fall for Verisign's National-ID. attila still going out... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBNDuu5704kQrCC2kFAQFXxgQAo/THjROjaWOCEdsFD0K9Yy1SXu6G2I3Z W7GDfTEv4bwalBUSwzHQJjPNcfrYnRoNpxkWm+kHiqolvoJP2XKtk89tnTumwyvK EfBLPbxRz0lfsXmxy5iNJXWEyJ1Tb3mYbu5CQuAhkWpFhP4xVaRsVSDzCzkmtnBs 7YRH8+KSwoI= =piYW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----