Fra: Christine Maher
Til: mailinglist@firstmonday.dk
Dato: 3. juni 1998 02:41
Emne: Re: First Monday - JuneDear Editors of First Monday,
This is a thank you message for First Monday. It is one of the most intelligent and thoughtful e-journals on the Internet, particularly in regard to issues of cyberspace. I have become very cynical and annoyed by a lot of the hype which accompanied the early years of the Internet and is still prevalent today.
First Monday seems like an oasis of rationality in a sea of cyberhysteria and Elmer Gantry-style boosterism.
Regards,
Christine Maher
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Christine MaherElectronic Information Services Librarian
La Trobe University Library
Bundoora
Victoria. Australia. 3083
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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 09:13:15 -0400
To: valauskas@firstmonday.dk
From: Nahum Goldmann
Subject: Response to "First Monday" article
To: Ed Valauskas
Editor in Chief, First MondayDear Mr. Valauskas
In "Electronic Commerce: The Issues and Challenges to Creating Trust and a Positive Image in Consumer Sales on the World Wide Web", published in First Monday, Anthony Ferraro said:
"Merchants, consumers and financial institutions all need to be confident of the identity with whom they conduct business. Only when all of the above parties are truly able to trust who they are dealing with online will this business model really take off."This is correct. The subject is indeed of great importance in evolving ecommerce.
And further:
"These concerns are in the areas of:
- Identification: the method that provides the means to recognize a user to a computer system.
- Authentication: the act of positive identification, coupled with a level of certainty before granting specific rights or privileges to the individual or station that has been positively identified.
- Authorization: the act of granting a user or program the requested access."
This is essentially incorrect, as it denotes a technical approach which is at the best of marginal interest to the user. Most of the merchants and consumers don't really care about these issues, for right or wrong considering that backroom developers have already implemented what it takes.
In any commerce, the principal trust comes not from my understanding of how the guts of the trading system work but from the my knowledge that there is a reasonable third party which says that the system is OK. Hence, it's the ongoing audit which is really at the heart of the issue of consumer trust in ecommerce, as it is in any credible commercial system.
Very best.
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Nahum Goldmann, CSCI Computer Security Canada Inc.
Email: Nahum.Goldmann@CSCI.ca, Homepage: http://www.CSCI.ca/
'Extranet: The "Third Wave" in the Internet Electronic Commerce'
(JIBC, http://www.arraydev.com /commerce/JIBC/9701-18.htm)
From: arcollier@mindspring.com
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 13:13 :22 -0600
To: valauskas@firstmonday.dk
Subject: First Monday featured in our newsletter
Just to let you know...First Monday is recommended and linked to from the current issue of The Sage Letter, an e-mail and Web newsletter for parents of online kids. Our June issue is about technology and education. You can find it at www.sageway.com/nl14.htm. Thank you for a fine site,
Anne Collier
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