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To: Scott Chase who wrote (9675)	7/29/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (1) of 26039

I didn't mean to suggest that Compaq and Mastercard "must not know what they're doing." However, what they are doing at this opening stage of the market is not necessarily what they will have to do at more mature, integrated stages. At this stage of the market, IDX is offering security features, at extra cost, that are unnecessary to those products. The Compaq/IDT deal is basically a very secure on/off switch, not unlike some others coming on the market. That will only get you so far; it will not help very well when there is a need for remote bio-ID over the Internet. The Mastercard/IDT biometric smart card is basically secure in your pocket, and unusable to a thief, but will likewise not be very secure when the market reaches into remote bio-ID. I believe that Compaq and Mastercard are trying to introduce biometric products at as inexpensively as possible in order to develop a large market. There is no need for extra safeguards at extra cost when you are doing this. But as devices get more integrated along networks, the need for security will increase quite quickly. That's when the IDX pitch becomes more persuasive. Fowler was critical of the competition. So what? That's unethical?

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