On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ian G <i...@iang.org> wrote: > On 24/3/09 21:21, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > >> (The US Patent and Trademark Office does it by sending a transaction >> ID number via postal mail, and a verification code via email to the >> address-of-record, only after a notarized jurat is physically mailed >> in. I honestly think the current batch of CAs are too paranoid in >> this regard; if the USPTO is willing to do something so high-risk with >> this system, I think that the rest of the world can fall in line.) > > > Somewhat apropos... > > http://www.securitydocumentworld.com/public/news.cfm?&m1=e_0&m2=e_0&m3=e_0&m4=e_0&subItemID=1641 > > A challenge for all :)
The problem is this: Government, regardless of which country, is the ultimate arbiter of legal identity -- the legal name, the legal status. In this case, it's rather odd, because the Federal government is not the final arbiter, it's only the penultimate -- the Federal government must defer to the individual state for identity proof and evaluation. In this case, it appeared to not even do the minimal checking (such as calling the county department of vital records and saying 'I have here a document numbered N, which claims to be issued by you, and I would like to verify its details'). Note that the original birth certificate is supposed to be mailed along with the passport application in the case of applying for a passport at the USPS. Ah well. I expect this will fall on deaf ears anyway. -Kyle H -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
