EU DIRECTIVE ON SIGNATURES

[Adam Back]

Charles Lindsey writes:
> If I am a large chemical conglomerate manufacturing fertiliser, and
> I receive an order for many tons of the stuff [...] what I really
> want to know is whether the order really came from him, and not from
> the Real IRA. 

I would suggest that you are confusing wants: perhaps some governments
might want to prevent sales of fertilizer to the IRA, but your
chemical company wants to sell fertelizer based on the guys credit
worthiness.

The governments views on controlling distribution, by adding of
taggants, or whatever is I suspect just a nuisance from the chemical
vendors perspective.

Personally I think fertelizer can be obtained easily enough -- there
are lots of farmers around, and it could easily be resold, and that
therefore futile attempts to control distribution are a waste of time.

Fertelizer is wandering off topic perhaps, but the more general point
is that DTI's propsals seem to be constructed from a Secret Service
special interest point of view, rather than from Industry's point of
view.

Adam