The following document was digitally signed by Stephen Byers at an event organised by InterForum and the Financial Times on 7th December 1999.
Whether you are reading this on paper or on the internet, you are reading the same words and receiving the same information.The Internet provides a way of dramatically increasing the civil liberties of the citizen. For this reason I am opposed to the GAK provisions in the RIP Bill.
This declaration was electronically signed by The Rt Hon Stephen Byers MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, at an event organised by InterForum and the Financial Times on 7th December 1999.
In the original hack, the TrustWise logo was displayed at the bottom of the page, like this. When a user clicked on it, he or she could verify that the TrustWise certificate was valid. This worked because the certificate really was valid! The site really belonged to BT, and the BT software would tell you that.
In this demo, the TrustWise logo doesn't do anything. We could only make the TrustWise verification work if we could still interwork with BT's site.