Digitally Notarized Documents in Brazil

Remote writes: "As of next year, Brazilians will be able to obtain notary-authenticated digital documents and have them sent over the Internet (English) . You can also obtain a CD or floppy from a notary office, containing your document encrypted with an assymetric key. The key generation, though, demands that one shows up in person at the notary office for ID verification. This was made possible by legislation that recognises public-key encrypted documents and signatures as legally valid. This is one first step, and I don't see why this wouldn't be applied to things like contracts, invoices, wills, etc. Brazilian Notary and Register Association claims that one can even print as many copies of, say, your driver license as desired, though I don't see how this part would work..."

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Re:Swiss Cheese...

[Knunov]

AIDS is one of the few diseases that can be controlled simply by modifying behavior. It's difficult to contract AIDS.

So, here you have Brazil, a country full of people that won't stop carelessly fucking, breaking a patent for a medicine that someone else spent 10's if not 100's of millions of dollars developing, simply because they don't have the will to NOT FUCK, or at least use protection.

We had Anthrax mailed to us. It's not even close to being the same scenario. And the bottom line is, we paid. They won't.

Knunov