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1 <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> 2 <!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> 3 <!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> 4 <!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural evils" --> 5 <!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> 6 <title>Anonymous Payment by Phone 7 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> 8 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/phone-anonymous-payment.translist" --> 9 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> 10 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> 11 <!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> 12 <!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> 13 <div class="article reduced-width"> 14 <h2>Anonymous Payment by Phone</h2> 15 16 <address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address> 17 18 <p>Here is an idea for an anonymous payment system that would be useful 19 for some applications.</p> 20 21 <ul> 22 <li>The seller sets up a phone number that charges N dollars per minute to 23 any caller.</li> 24 25 <li>The customer chooses a code, calls that number (which requires paying 26 N dollars), and enters the code. A voice-generation system speaks the 27 code back so the customer can confirm it.</li> 28 29 <li>That code represents a payment of N dollars. The customer enters it 30 in a web site, or a kiosk, and it constitutes payment for whatever.</li> 31 </ul> 32 33 <p>It should be possible to do this using a phone card on a payphone 34 or anyone else's telephone.</p> 35 </div> 36 37 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> 38 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> 39 <div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> 40 <div class="unprintable"> 41 42 <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to 43 <a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. 44 There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> 45 the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent 46 to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> 47 48 <p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph, 49 replace it with the translation of these two: 50 51 We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality 52 translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection. 53 Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard 54 to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> 55 <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> 56 57 <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of 58 our web pages, see <a 59 href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations 60 README</a>. --> 61 Please see the <a 62 href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations 63 README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations 64 of this article.</p> 65 </div> 66 67 <!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to 68 files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should 69 be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this 70 without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first. 71 Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the 72 document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the 73 document was modified, or published. 74 75 If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too. 76 Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying 77 years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable 78 year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including 79 being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system). 80 81 There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers 82 Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> 83 84 <p>Copyright © 2018, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> 85 86 <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" 87 href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative 88 Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> 89 90 <!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --> 91 92 <p class="unprintable">Updated: 93 <!-- timestamp start --> 94 $Date: 2021/10/01 10:55:57 $ 95 <!-- timestamp end --> 96 </p> 97 </div> 98 </div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> 99 </body> 100 </html>