Not to mention all the horrific typos. The pain grammar school teachers suffer as a result of anonymous, uninhibited and over caffeinated anarchists is one of the silent tragedies of our times.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 3:17 AM, David Vorick <[email protected]>wrote: > I hadn't though about it this way until now, but having the ability to > achieve full anonymity on the internet enables things like this, and > assassination markets might not be the first or most viscous thing enabled > by anonymity. > > I can imagine that if assassination markets were to take off, you'd see > some large bounties (in excess of $100k) on every major politician in the > world. Pretty much any figure of high popularity would probably have some > sort of assassination bounty on their head, because the more popular you > are, the more haters you have. > > What other sorts of unacceptable things could you do given fully anonymous > money coupled with a fully anonymous internet identity? I can think of: > > website takedowns > funding murder, rape, arson, etc. > bombing certain buildings > funding smear campaigns (say, tear the clothes off a popular celebrity or > something) > bounties for drugs, child porn, etc. > kidnappings > doxing > > You could basically attempt to crowd fund any illegal activity. > -- "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.
