Re: Barcode Email

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/26/05 

Date: 26 Jul 2005 07:37:03 -0700

Ari Silversteinn wrote:
> > It represents mediocracy. You educate your customers not play to their
> > level. Avoiding proper crypto because it's hard to sell is like
> > avoiding Calculus because it's hard to teach...
>
> Yeah and Calculus has done so well with the general public, Tom, hasn't it?
> I tell you what, let's go to the street corner and you sell Calculus books
> and I'll sell Tom Clancy and see who sells more.

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The point of learning
information isn't solely to immediately sell it.

Look inside an engineering firm and see how many suspense writers are
there. Now count the number of people who have gone through calculus
and algebra.

If your sole purpose is to peddle as much "security" on people as
easily as you can without regard to safe practices then you deserve
contempt and I hope you fail [in life] miserably.

> >> That cliché works, fresh isn't necessarily better. Don't dismiss it until
> >> you have tried it.
> >
> > A barcode is just an encoding method. Yes it's a cool idea. No it's
> > not a way to encrypt data.
>
> Correct, it's a way to represent and transport data however once the dat is
> represented in a form that requires The Program to read it, it is
> encrypted, is it not?

Kirchoff's principle for check-mate!

Tom

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