CDR: Re: Wired News tech scorecard for U.S. House of Representatives

[Declan McCullagh]

I spoke to one of Paul's aides about the scorecard, and he said (I'm 
paraphrasing) that his boss voted against the bill in part because it was 
flawed, and not just on knee-jerk federalism grounds or whatnot.

I've also written about the law, and I agree it's flawed, but I still 
decided to count it as a net positive.

-Declan


At 16:22 10/24/2000 -0700, Eric Murray wrote:
>That vote on the Electronic Signature law could be considered a positive.
>It's a really lousy law.  It's not a _Digital Signature_ law--
>there's no crypto involved.  Under this law, "clicking on a button"
>is explicitly considered a digital "signature".
>That is very easy to forge.  This law opens up whole new vistas for
>identy theft and abuse.   Maybe Paul has a clued-in person on his staff?