On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's
policies, game over.
Hawala
At 10:33 PM 11/28/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for
fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make
use of trusted intermediaries? The vendors register with the intermedi-
ary *, who takes some pains to
At 06:44 PM 11/28/04 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
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On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always
be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch.
You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled,
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Subject: Re: geographically removed? eHalal
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:36:39 -0800
At 10:33 PM 11/28/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for
fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make
use of trusted
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Major Variola:
Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can
always be defeated by cranking up the police state a
notch.
This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems.
James A. Donald:
The problem is that any genuinely irrevocable payment
system gets
to post on the subject was to
illustrate
that, as long as Group-of-Bandits X continues to utilize our tax
dollars to
fuck over geographically removed Group of Bandits Y (and their
citizenry),
Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be
defeated by cranking up the police state
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On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always
be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch.
You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled,
determined, disciplined, and united. Observed police states
indicating that geographically removed is less
important,
and the only incident that Joe Voter is likely to remember. Until the
next one, of course; Joe's buffer is not terribly capacious.
Well, perhaps. Then again, consider though primordial blacknet systems
currently labeled P2P. They don't
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 21:44, James A. Donald wrote:
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On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always
be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch.
You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled,
Steve Furlong wrote...
I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for
fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make
use of trusted intermediaries? The vendors register with the intermedi-
ary *, who takes some pains to verify their identity,
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