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True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

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Foner Internet commerce is really what has the whole world—the glitzy, high-profile world of money and politics—interested in the Internet. The stock markets are awash in hot Internet stocks, because the people who control most of the money in the world have come to realize that they can use this hitherto cloistered and obscure “scientific chatline” as a means for making money.
But central to the process of making money is having secure exchanges of information—and funds. Leonard Foner, who is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, presents some of the problems inherent in exchanges of information that are not just supposed to be private, but that absolutely must be safe from the meddling of outside parties. These are issues that are similar to but different from those elsewhere in this book. His points are well taken and extremely important for all of us if we want to avoid massive theft or fraud over the Information Superhighway. This article was written in 1995.
      “In the once-upon-a-time days of the First Age of Magic, the prudent sorcerer regarded his own true name as his most valued possession but also the greatest threat to his continued good health, for—the stories go—once an enemy, even a weak unskilled enemy, learned the sorcerer’s true name, then routine and widely known spells could destroy or enslave even the most powerful.

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