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Technology Stocks : WAVX Anyone? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Trippi who wrote (5921)	3/12/1999 4:41:00 AM
From: Tony McFadden	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11417

Cool stuff on the N.O. trip. Now back to WAVX cnn.com A link to Smart Card 101. Particularly like this quote... "Together with digital certificates, smart cards can even enhance authentication between parties, control access to intranets and extranets from outside the firewall, and protect the privacy of data, files, and e-mail. And smart cards provide portability for securely moving private information among systems at work, at home, or on the road. Smart card users will not need to memorize their passwords or employ a different password for every application; they can carry the cards with them." and this one... "Developers working on enhancing the smart card technology include Bull, Gemplus, Hewlett-Packard, Schlumberger, and Siemens Nixdorf, as well as industry giants IBM and Microsoft." and this one... "With the rampant growth of the Internet -- a public and notoriously insecure data network -- security concerns are high in corporate consciousness. Smart cards can play a vital role in relieving the fears of IT managers, and should also appeal strongly to users. For applications such as Internet commerce, smart cards offer far more security protections to consumers than today's magnetic-stripe cards. If you like a sure thing, smart cards are a safe bet." Full link: cnn.com Now, what was that about HP and smart cards that I saw a couple of days ago? The ducks just keep on lining up... Tony tmcfadden@ragingbull.com members.tripod.com