Tim May writes:
> (Yes, this all assumes digital products...if _physical_ goods are
> being shipped, then even payer untraceability is largely lost.
> Luckily for this scenario, the emphasis we have placed has always
> been on cyberspatial goods...information, data, access to other
> information, etc. Including even digital money, in some versions,
> which is the money changer scenario, basically.)
Is this a realistic scenario? You think someone is going to demand one
million dollars' worth of DATA as ransom? How many MP3s is that, exactly?
Contrast this with one million dollars of anonymous digital cash.
Such cash can be converted into bank deposits untraceably, and from
there used to buy the real goods which the criminals want.
Until you can point to some form of data which is reasonably fungible,
can be provided by the victim, and unarguably worth millions of dollars,
this argument does not hold.
