Re: STT_???

["James Caldwell" <jcaldwel@iquest.net>]

On 28 Sep 95 at 8:08, John Young wrote:

>    9-28-95. W$Japer:
> 
> 
>    "Infighting Unravels Alliance Seeking Standard to Protect
>    Internet Purchases."

Money, money, money, MONEY!
 
Let's hope Digital cash sans the Corprats takes...
>       The consortium brought together such top players as
>       credit-card rivals Visa International and MasterCard
>       International Inc., software titan Microsoft Corp. and
>       Internet upstart Netscape Communications Corp. But this
>       week, the alliance split because of tensions between
>       Visa and MasterCard and their respective technology
>       partners -- Microsoft and Netscape.

Watch the vultures at Mirosoft come to feed:
 
>       Regarding Netscape, Mr. Dent of Microsoft said the
>       firm's security deficiencies that have recently come to
>       light have "tainted" electronic commerce on the
>       Internet. Mr. Dent also noted that Microsoft yesterday
>       introduced new security technology, including means to
>       verify a user's identity, that is much stronger than
>       Netscape's.