WYTM - "but what if it was true?"

[dan at geer.org]

Victor Duchovni writes:
 | ...
 | The personal ATM appliance should be difficult to tamper with and should
 | accept only a single set of accounts (so that stolen pin numbers are not
 | portable)...


My personal guess is that the general purpose
computer is ultimately a goner -- it will later,
if not sooner, be legally treated much like having
a swimming pool if not a 50 caliber.  ("Honest people
don't need a compiler or admin privilege" is already
true in the corporate arena...)  Either that, or
network-admittance will become the focus of authority
and liability (also already true in corporate arenas).

Probably a rat hole,

--dan


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