From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:34:09 +0800
To: "John Kelsey" <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
Subject: Re: Protocols for Insurance to Maintain Privacy
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At 11:58 AM -0700 11/5/97, John Kelsey wrote:

>I know.  Let me make it clear that I am not at all
>interested in banning private testing, coercing insurance
>companies or anyone else into agreements they don't want to
>make, etc.  I am saying it would be nice if I could buy
>insurance against the results of the tests before I took
>them.  The problem is, I can't see a really workable way to
>do this, because there's no way to keep people from taking
>the test beforehand.

That's my point. Since there can be no way to determine if someone has had
themselves tested, such "wouldn't it be nice" scenarios are meaningless.

--Tim May


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