Re: [OFFTOPIC] P&C ID Numbers (was: Re: sign up for go-linux)

2004-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
How about asking people to enter their ID number and having JavaScript code which does MD5 encryption on it before transmission to the Web server (with enough visual assurance and feedback to reassure the paranoid among us [me] that this is what they are doing)? I find it hard to believe that they

Re: [OFFTOPIC] P&C ID Numbers (was: Re: sign up for go-linux)

2004-12-20 Thread Eli Marmor
Omer Zak wrote: > > I see. > > I think there are alternatives, which are less dangerous to people's > privacy. > > For example, when you sign up, P&C will issue you a serial number (perhaps > combination of name+number, like hotmail did) which you are requested to > use in your future dealings w

[OFFTOPIC] P&C ID Numbers (was: Re: sign up for go-linux)

2004-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
I see. I think there are alternatives, which are less dangerous to people's privacy. For example, when you sign up, P&C will issue you a serial number (perhaps combination of name+number, like hotmail did) which you are requested to use in your future dealings with P&C. And you'll want to use th