At 9:39 PM -0400 on 9/18/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> Someday, of course, you won't need the fiat bit, but pure commodities
> aren't the end-state. You probably need a mix of stuff, including financial
> proxies like debt and equity indices, and so on. But the core problem is
> measuring inflatio
>(1) Okay, I *might* :-) excuse Mondex from this rule, I suppose, but only
>because the smart-cards themselves are physically swappable, and thus at
>the physical, card-to-card level, anyway, are bearer instruments, but I
>would only say so under a regime in which those cards *contents*, the
>bala
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At 1:59 PM -0400 on 9/18/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A Yahoo wrote [about AMEX's "anonymous" credit card technology]:
> % What a load of shit.
> That market dwarfs what ZKS/Anonymizer will ever get.
Again, boys and girls, barring unforeseen events, like r
A Yahoo wrote:
%What a load of shit. If you check that URL the next
%thing you see the following release:
%
%http://www.privada.net/news/releases/2717.html
%#
%#Privada's Technology Protects Users' Privacy, Only
%#Monitors Those Who Abuse It
%#[sni
>ZKS and Anonymizer have the wrong business model in
>terms
>of what consumers want. They're too techie. What
>people
>(as opposed to cypherpunks ;-) want is privacy AND
the
>ability to make purchases without spreading their CC#
>all over.
>
>This is the hottest area of privacy services, and
>comp
