Re: anonymous & none in the ACM (Was: Comments Access Control Model - authentication levels 2)

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 12:52 PM 4/9/01 -0500, George_Robert_Blakley_III@tivoli.com wrote:
>X.500 was designed before privacy became an issue as big as it is today.
>Certainly "anonymous" and "unauthenticated" DO NOT mean the same thing
>in all cases -- for example if I use a debit (ATM) card at my grocery
>store, from
>the viewpoint of the store I am anonymous (they don't learn my identity,

Actually, the store does know your name... it might even
be printed on your receipt... my local store actually
makes a point in thanking customers by name after they
use their bank card.

Kurt