And oh yeah, just in case you thought that Clinton "signing" the new e-signature bill was a good thing: it wasn't. The bill has nothing to do with the very feasible technology of digital signatures (using public key encryption) which could be used to verify the author or signer of various electronic documents (the Clinton admin. is still very against public key encryption.) All this bill does is increase the power of those "click here to agree to this license" licenses. This is purely for the benefit of big business, and definitely not in any way for your benefit (unless you are a big business of course.) Thanks again Bill.
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- jim 7-01-2000 4:26 pm