Reply to post: Brown envelopes?

Must diarise: UK.gov Verify ID system will 'definitely' work by 2016

glen waverley
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Brown envelopes?

I thought the whole point of brown envelopes is that identity is definitely *not* a requirement. If identity mattered, then payments would be made by direct transfer (thus making NSW ICAC's job soooo much easier).

(GW goes into revery about on-line identity being verifiably set up as "the big man" or similar so as not to have to send a reliable constable around various cafes, pubs, etc to physically collect the envelopes.)

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