At 10:08 AM +0000 3/11/00, Secret Squirrel wrote:
>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?
Don't know...don't care.
The point is that at some time nonphysical goods will predominate
over physical goods. (If not, why do we care much about even _payer_
untraceability? Someone who buys television sets or sacks of cat food
is traceable just via the point of physical delivery.)
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
"Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
