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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (28472)10/6/1999 10:03:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
Hello Paul,

Gotta run to a meeting, but I wanted to try and reply to this one ...

> I would say these Zero Knowledge comments are off the mark
>
> They are trying to argue for the old system of leaving your
> identity at dispersed web sites under the control of
> whoknowswhotheyare.com.

Nope ... if you visit their web site, they are fighting to push for a network of distributed identity/proxy servers ... so it is not such a different concept.

> No one controls a digitalme identity server.

Of course someone does ... the owner of the physical box! They are the one that will have to deal with the law when a court order shows up. They are the one that can hack at the hard drive all day and all night. They are the one that can alter code to modify servlets. This is exactly why *you* will want to pick and choose the service provider that you *trust* ...

> Your information is being put in one place, just as you put your
> valuables in one safe deposit box. That doesn't prevent you from
> going to another bank and getting another safe deposit box.

Yes! Exactly! Or, you might have multiple safety deposit boxes where you put fragments that you trust at each one. And if the software that enables this, is able to provide the services without you have to manage the multiple locations? *That* is powerful software!

I don't think that we are in disagreement in concept, merely in some implementation details. There is another very key piece of software that, IMHO, enables all of this. And I haven't brought that up on purpose ... it is a valuable piece of information ... to Novell or any potential competitor ... ;-)

Scott C. Lemon
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