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German Government Introduces Digital Signatures
bertvl writes: "From this
article on CNN: Germany's federal government is introducing electronic signatures for its employees, a step it hopes will help make the security procedure generally accepted in the country. More than 200,000 employees of ministries and agencies will be able to sign electronic documents using a chip card with an encrypted key, giving them the same legal weight as paper documents with a handwritten signature, the federal Cabinet said in a statement Thursday."
Will keeping track of 200,000 signatures be a logistical nightmare. Plus I am sure it will be easily cracked by someone, and then there will be fake documents flying around, but now they will have legal status.
Cruise TT
I have never been to Germany, but man, it sucks!
m -butcrack, rascist, fascist, head-full-of-fallow, shitfilled, tongue-in-butted, MASTURBATE-ALL-DAMN-DAYED, ridiculous and just plain shunned-at-birth.
I mean, the people smell bad, are ugly, stupid, lazy, repulsive, fat, slow, retarded, fucked-up, pooped, idiotic, penis-shaped, dingy, anorexic, bolemic, frail, potatoey-hued, small, ant-like, boring, sprinkled, ejaculated-upon, crazy, flatulent, taco-snotted, elephant-like, shriveled-testicaled, shallow, deceitful, shameful, post-nukedomed, defacated-upon, mishapen, malformed, oozing-with-pint-after-pint-of-american-semen-fro
now, many can live with these deficiences and some even accept germans as full humans! But I, no I, alas, do not. For I keep my principles clear and open! I do not, and will not tolerate a whole fucking nation or bitch-fags. If you're german, i dont want to squash your grapes (into ejaculatory lubricant) but FUCK YOU.
You have stolen my people's heritage and deserve to die, miserable fuckjar!
Go back to Moscow, bolshevik-loving hippie-fascist pigfags!
FUCK YOU! Let my people go!
sucka
They both have a history of oppression and censorship!
It's easy to be technologically advanced when one doesn't need to keep around an army. Let Uncle Sam spend the big bucks to protect your behind, while you use the savings to get the industry going. Nice play.
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I have a real problem seeing the Germans get out of Nuclear any time soon. In some states like Bavaria a major part of the Electricity comes from nuclear. It would be a 20 year+ project to realise it. If they are lucky the Current Govt. will manage to close one or two nuclear plants IF they get reelected. If they don't the Christ Democrats which are ultra conservatives who think GW Bush's enviromental policies are to compromising will scrap the whole thing.
Now that I have lived here for a year I can say that this chip thing sounds really German, they have a compulsive need to regulate everything. About the only thing you do not need to fill out a form and get a liscense to do yet is to break wind allthough that will soon require a pollution liscense. The law favours big business allright and this to the point that it can take upto 10 working days to cache a checque. Basically the Law favours Banks and Businessess at the Expense of the consumer at every turn. If the Christ Democrats come to power Germany will probably become the worlds first country with a Genetic finger print embedded in the national ID, and a free for Corporations to use Genetic database. Y'know for "Risk Management of employees". All in all the Germans should thank god the Conservatives were not in power when the WTC strike happened. The plans for new Security measures the Social democrats came up with were bad enaugh I do not even want to imagine what the Christ Democrats would have cooked up.
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why don't you pay someone to build you a space base into Mars?
i mean, with the same amount of money you spend to pass the laws you like (espessialy in Germany, not talking about US -there a blowjob will do the job-) or to crack the digital signatures (even more expensive and time consuming), you'll even make a profit out of it (not to mantion the journey).
This is your chance to travel abroad (and ours to read more logical comments)