On the subject of >>...money .... Microsoft and QUALCOMM ...<<
one big thing, possibly an abracadabra is the power of CA (for Certifying Authority). Think of the world full of Alices and Bobs and Charlies and Debbies, who deal with each other. How am I sure for instance that a) Mq is for real and b) Mq is THE Mq? Im ... ahem ... pretty sure. Were there a Certifying authority, I would be, sort of, well, for all practical purposes) certain - note the same root in the two words, CERT - out of certus for sure in Latin. There's quite a few candidates around for this absolute power in the world of nets - the usual suspects like the banks (they certify your checking card for instance), credit card corps (same for your VISA, AmEx, Mastercard), well, there's the government, but you just have to go and pick up a birth certificate of a person, who already joined his creator, and its CA role is punched full of holes.
The biggest on this horizon, from my corner of the world, is Microsoft, with its PASSPORT. Think of the Big Billy brother, eventually helping courts decide which of the avatars (10 physically present and 16 via uplink) is the one and true DJ (g).
There's dlls and all kinds of other software getting their guIDs (global universal IDs). Eventually we're up for one too.
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