[cap-talk] the value of non-delegatable authority?

[Karp, Alan H]

Toby Murray wrote:
>
> I remember reading about a mechanism to reduce the risk of
> identity-fraud whereby credit card charges (or something
> similar, can't
> remember) would have to authorised by having a bank (or
> similar entity)
> phone you up on a registered number to authenticate each
> charge. This is
> almost an exact real-world embodiment of the NDA as explained
> in the paper.
>
Watch the video at http://www.astav.net/.
(Disclaimer: Its a company run by a friend of mine.)

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