Comment Re:Scan to 2:37 for a shot of his PE resin girlfri (Score 2) 165
2.) He works for a MEDICAL SUPPLY COMPANY. I can't imagine they'd have any reason to prodouce various fascimilies of the human body. None at all come to mind...
Example: Suppose you want to patent RSA encryption
You mean like U.S. Patent 4,405,829 which was issued to Rivest, Shamir and Adleman and was enfoced requiring RSA implementations to be licensed until shortly before it expired in 2000? There's a reason PGP used El-Gamal and DSA for a long time without supporting RSA keys.
There is no certificate authority involved, as the DNS hierarchy contains the signature chain, from the root servers, to each TLD, to each domain. One proposed use of DNSSEC is to publish an SSL certificate public key -- then no Certificate Authorities are required! A browser can use the DNSSEC validated response to match the public key (or more likely, fingerprint) to the web server it is connecting with. You can already use DNS to publish SSH key fingerprints, now you can sign that record for even more trust.
Ostensibly, CAs validate more than ownership of a domain - they're supposed to tie a legal entity to the website, in order to prevent bankofarmerica.com from MITMing your connection to your bank. You should theoretically check that the entity is the one you expect - headquarter in such and such state, etc. Realistically, no one did, and so now we have EV certs to try to make that more visible. Where we go from here is another question....
TL;DR: CAs are supposed to speak to more than just domain ownership.
Any online company selling outside of its state would have to keep track of potentially 50 times as many different sales taxes (not all states have sales tax, I am aware)
50? Ha! Try 5000+! Not only can sales tax be imposed by the state, it can be imposed by:
There are places where different tax rates depend not only on which side of the street you're on, but whether you're on the north side of the street to the east or west of the intersection with another major street, except for the 5000 block. I'm not kidding, although I wish I was.
Then, you have to figure out what rate to charge various items at, for every state. Food is taxed at different rates in many states, but what qualifies as food? In Washington, up until recently, a Kit-Kat bar was taxed at a different rate than a Snickers bar (apparently one was candy, and one was somehow a baked desert). Now you have to figure out and track different tax rates for every jurisdiction for every item you carry.
Not only that, but in some states, companies have to file separate tax paperwork with every county, detailing all their sales broken down by district. For a small internet retailer, this means that almost EVERY new customer means an extra tax filing and the fees to the accountants and lawyers that go with it.
A requirement to collect local sales tax for internet retailers is COMPLETELY unfair and a huge burden for companies, regardless of whether they are small mom-and-pops or the size of Amazon.com.
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