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Martin G. Diehl (mdiehl@nac.net)
Sat, 11 Apr 1998 08:31:57 -0400
Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> >> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9804/10/t_t/smart.stamp/index.html
> >> (http://www.estamp.com/)
> >> This is an article about a new postage stamp that can be printed
> >> by your computer.
[snip]
> My first reaction to the estamp was "traffic analysis" -
> the estamp has enough room in its bar code to keep track of
> who bought the stamps. The web site doesn't indicate the
> data formats....
[snip]
> Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
> PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
Hmmm, it _has_ to in order to detect double spending. Suppose
you were able to capture the "stamp" at the printer port and
"reimport" it as a graphic format -- that stamp could be used
over and over.
-- Martin G. DiehlI am what I am. All opinions expressed within are strictly my own.
If Ziggy says "Time is what keeps everything from happening at once", and Newton teaches that Gravity brings all matter together, could we say that Time and Gravity have an antagonistic relationship?
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:57 ADT