<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Dave Horsfall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@horsfall.org" target="_blank">dave@horsfall.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I've just started reading "Robbery Under Arms" (a story about<br>
cattle/horse/sheep rustling in Australia), and given the recent thread<br>
about how Enigma could be improved using only technology available at the<br>
time), a thought occurred to me:<br>
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How would an owner design a brand that could not be altered, </blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tscrabrands.com/design-brand.html">http://www.tscrabrands.com/design-brand.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>This is a modestly well solved problem. </div></div><br>When the tech of the design fails it is defended in the law.<br><a href="https://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/brands/wi_brand.htm">https://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/brands/wi_brand.htm</a><br><br>Barcodes and other tags including electronic tags support other bits of the law.<br>"<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times;font-size:medium">a mark required by law for official identification in disease control programs."<br></span><br>An additional defense is the target alteration must be recorded</div><div class="gmail_extra">which makes tracking and prosecuting the bad guys easier. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/6X4l5RzUMM/">https://www.instagram.com/p/6X4l5RzUMM/</a><br><a href="http://www.lsirish.com/tutorials/woodcarving-tutorials/woodcarving-fundamentals-techniques/working-with-your-patterns/cattle-branding-layouts/">http://www.lsirish.com/tutorials/woodcarving-tutorials/woodcarving-fundamentals-techniques/working-with-your-patterns/cattle-branding-layouts/</a><br><a href="https://agriculture.az.gov/livestock-brands">https://agriculture.az.gov/livestock-brands</a><br><br>Interesting... <br>Web site impersonation is not nearly so well defended under the law.<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting</a><br>Perhaps it should.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">  T o m    M i t c h e l l</div></div>
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