on 8/13/2002 2:34 PM Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: >> Another more insidious bowl of noodles is dealing with joe-jobs > > Same issues, really. Actually easier in one way, since there's forgery > or misreprentaton involved. Yeah, charges of fraud can be much more severe The problem is that the default defense condition becomes "we didn't authorize it" Similar-to/regardless-of the higher overheads you cited, proving that somebody did authorize it would be nigh impossible at scale, making the law essentially unenforcable except for the dumbasses who didn't obfuscate the paper trail. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/