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To: PJ Strifas who wrote (26458)	4/5/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (3) of 42771

I don't buy the "ignorance" argument Part of the problem that technical people have with users of the internet is the almost immediate recourse to "he deserved it" because he didn't know what he was doing. Our job is to design systems that "ignorant" people can use safely. What digitalme could do for AOL security is place another barrier between the user and the world. (Stealing the login/password files ought to be something AOL prevents independent of the "ignorant" user.) Digitalme can use random verification of the users identity that goes beyond login and password to help on the user side. It should be possible to ask the user for other verification information at random in order for the user to complete a successful logon. I would then offer the network administrator a Zen based tool to analyze frequently failing login attempts to try to spot hackers. I'm sure creative security people can come up with even more. The purpose of using digitalme is to secure an identity not hide it. Once you get a digital identity through digitalme you should be completely verifiable. If the FBI needs to know who you are they should be able to go to the identity vault with a Court order and obtain your identity in normal legal ways. The digitalme identity vault doesn't hide who you are instead it protects who you are. There are many ways to steal an identity on the internet and I fear for those crooks who get access to the information databases that are being created out there as a result of internet information mining activities. It is quite possible that the fellow in New Jersey was so out there in net virus circles that somebody or some organization used him to attack the net knowing that he would be the fall guy. With vast databases being created on each and every one of us, this will be the more serious threat in the future. Digitalme attacks this next level of internet threat by putting the honest people and their identities into a secure identity vault. The crackers can't get at your identity to steal your identity and that is the point. I'm sure some users on AOL would look forward to digitalme security. I hope Novell can partner with AOL in offering them this service.

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