[perpass] The problem with scaling authentication...
Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> Mon, 25 November 2013 15:02 UTC
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Subject: [perpass] The problem with scaling authentication...
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... is that the authorities can make bad decisions. The Economist has an article this week about suspect passport issuance practices among a collection of Caribbean nations. For example, an official in Suriname simultaneously serving as counter-terrorism official and issuing false passports to Hezbollah. Or several countries that now allow "economic citizenship" for a few 100k$. Just wanted to observe that authentication woes are not unique to the Internet and its collection of CAs. Authenticating things on a global basis is hard. < http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21590574-murky-world-bouterses-passports-ignominy >