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Proof of a financial transaction

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Apparently many bank card transactions are also fingerprinted:

The idea with the transaction certificate (TC) is that the card signs off on the correct completion of the protocol, having received the response from the bank and accepted it. The resulting TC is supposed to be a sort of “proof of transaction”

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“My website was copied by the Chinese government”

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

One interesting aspect of this discussion about a copied website, is that no-one has a solution.

http://www.wxbh-lrj.gov.cn/ is the copy, http://www.lokad.com/Technology.ashx is the original.

The funny things are:
* plenty of “left-over” on the Chinese website from the original one.
* imaginative ways of recycling irrelevant illustrations.
* it’s a .gov.cn website, that is to say an official Department of the Government of China.

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Breath-test ruling on source code

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Here’s an interesting angle that we’ve been following for a while, do criminal defendants have a right to
read the source code of devices used against them?

defense attorneys have argued that if they can’t examine the source code, the computer program that runs the machine, they have no way to tell if the Intoxilyzer is reliable. District judges across Minnesota have handled defense requests for the source code with a patchwork of rulings: Some say a defendant has a right to examine it; others say it isn’t relevant.

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