CDR: Re: Authenticate the "adult field", go to jail...

[obvious at beta.freedom.net]

RAH writes:
> ...an argument for bearer credentials if there ever was one...

Are you kidding?  These people just did the credit card verifications.
They'd be in just as much trouble if they provided bearer credential
services.

> Thomas Reedy, 37, and his wife, Janice Reedy, 32, of Fort Worth, are
> accused in an 87-count indictment of providing access to several child-porn
> Internet sites by verifying subscribers' credit cards and assigning them
> passwords.
>
> The Reedys maintain that they did not know that some of the pornographic
> sites they provided access to contained illegal child pornography.

In fact if anything this kind of prosecution is an argument *against*
getting into the ecash/ecredential business, especially if it is focused
on porn as some have proposed.  All you need is for someone to use it
to sell or authorize access to kiddie porn, and you're going to jail.

Obvious.

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