Bogus digital signatures, Re: OT: utility account transfer frauds

[Charles Lindsey]

=09On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:23:15 +0100
=09Nicholas Bohm <nbohm@ernest.net> said...

> >Which seems to me like a good argument why the law should assume that
> >anyone who does not keep his key secure should be made to abide by the
> >content of anything signed with it.
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> This is about as attractive as the suggestion that anything taken from my=
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> house using a door key that I carelessly lost should be treated as taken=
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> with my consent.
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If you say that your =A31,000,000 Rembrandt painting has been stolen from y=
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house, and also say that your handbag containing your key just happened to =
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been snatched from your hand the day before, I think the Police would want =
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check your story of the handbag VERY carefully.

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