Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

2003-08-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:40:33AM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: time for such pipe dreams. Now that many are un- or under-employed there still doesn't seem to be any activity by those active on this list in this critical infrastructure area. All the recent work that is being done (e.g.,

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-26 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Tim May wrote: Some lurker unwilling to comment on the public list sent me this. I didn't notice it wasn't intended for the list until I had already written a reply and was preparing to send it. So I have altered the name. 'Twas meant for the list, I just hit reply instead of reply all

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-26 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 2:15 PM +0100 7/26/03, Peter Fairbrother wrote: Personally I prefer to hit reply, ie with a Reply-To: header set to the list (confusing, eg!). That way, if I want to reply to the list (which is my default preference) then the sender of the mail I'm replying to doesn't get two copies. But then I

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-25 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 07:12 PM, Steve Furlong wrote: On Thursday 24 July 2003 15:50, Tim May wrote: In fact, digicash strongly suggests David Chaum's Digicash, That assumes the reader or listener has heard of Digicash, or of Chaum. Not an assumption I'd be comfortable making. Agreed,

Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

2003-07-25 Thread John Young
Oh, like Uday and Qusay, you can't kill this immortal fucker, nobody got the guts to plow a TOW in it. Instead, thousands of gutless have hari-kiried by exiting the battle for well.com nutlick where the dead live in perfect, silent synchrony, so that is a no-brain, no-work option. Sit still,

Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

2003-07-25 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, John Young wrote: The old days, don't believe them, cypherpunks was and is toxic to serious makeovers and shutdowns and lock-outs, and, never forget that PLONKS are cries of shut the fuck up and listen to me. Pluck the PLONKS, if you don't get them you aint earning your

Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

2003-07-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Friday 25 July 2003 11:40, Steve Schear wrote: ... Now that many are un- or under-employed there still doesn't seem to be any activity by those active on this list in this critical infrastructure area. Speaking only for myself, I'm making a lot less than I was a couple of years ago. In

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-25 Thread Tim May
Some lurker unwilling to comment on the public list sent me this. I didn't notice it wasn't intended for the list until I had already written a reply and was preparing to send it. So I have altered the name. --Tim On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 01:07 PM, SOMEONE wrote: Tim May wrote: On

Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

2003-07-25 Thread Tim May
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 02:36 PM, Steve Furlong wrote: On Friday 25 July 2003 11:40, Steve Schear wrote: ... Now that many are un- or under-employed there still doesn't seem to be any activity by those active on this list in this critical infrastructure area. Speaking only for myself, I'm

Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

2003-07-25 Thread Bill Frantz
On Friday 25 July 2003 11:40, Steve Schear wrote: ... Now that many are un- or under-employed there still doesn't seem to be any activity by those active on this list in this critical infrastructure area. In some sense, we have enough code. Code exists that can be deployed. It may have to go

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-25 Thread Nomen Nescio
One point being overlooked here is digital versus physical anonymity. The funky ATM (what, does it smell or something?) will allow you to (among other things) stick in some cash and let someone else withdraw it using a password which you have sent him out of band (according to the patent - which

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-24 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2003-07-23, Sunder uttered: If you want to do electronic payments that are non-anonymous you can simply use a credit card or debit card (or something like paypal, egold), or for larger quanitities you can do wire transfers - so

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-24 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 03:17 PM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2003-07-24, Tim May uttered: HOWEVER, our interest is in the untraceable/anonymous. Duh! You were gibbering about how digicash includes PayPal, ATMs, Visa, and other forms of transfers which are only digital in that computers

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-24 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thursday 24 July 2003 15:50, Tim May wrote: In fact, digicash strongly suggests David Chaum's Digicash, That assumes the reader or listener has heard of Digicash, or of Chaum. Not an assumption I'd be comfortable making. I choose not to call untraceable/anonymous digital cash by any of

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-22 Thread Tyler Durden
: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:39:41 -0500 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:25:59AM -0400, Sunder wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Steve Furlong wrote: (I won't be able to observe directly, as I was fired from that company because I'm an incompetent

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-22 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:25:59AM -0400, Sunder wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Steve Furlong wrote: (I won't be able to observe directly, as I was fired from that company because I'm an incompetent slacker (boss's view) or because the boss was a jack-booted jackass (my view).) Shit

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-22 Thread Sunder
I wonder if some sort of infrared LED laden bandana be made for the benefit of the cameras. :) Maybe something like those scrolling blackboard things that say stuff... It could say things like I'm ANONYMOUS, Neener neener, nya, nya, nya I wonder what the guards would do then?

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-22 Thread Morlock Elloi
If the digicash isn't anonymous, it's worthless. I'd argue to the contrary. First, most people have nothing to hide. The folks will want digicash for reasons other than anonymity, as argued You are misusing the term cash. What you are describing are essentially internet debit cards. While it

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-21 Thread Steve Furlong
On Monday 21 July 2003 01:12, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://nytimes.com/2003/07/21/technology/21PATE.html?pagewanted=prin tposition= A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online I worked on a commercial digital money system a few years ago. One of their business models was almost

A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-20 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://nytimes.com/2003/07/21/technology/21PATE.html?pagewanted=printposition= The New York Times July 21, 2003 A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online By TERESA RIORDAN the 1997 science-fiction movie The Velocity Trap, the interstellar banking system is so decimated