Re: Wired on e-gold

2001-12-20 Thread Petro
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 06:02 PM, Steve Schear wrote: > At 01:30 AM 12/19/2001 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: > >> >> >> Criminals love privacy, they love anonymity. Remailer operators soon >> find >> that a substantial majority of the messages they send contain nothing >> but harrassmen

Re: Wired on e-gold

2001-12-20 Thread Petro
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 04:30 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Criminals love privacy, they love anonymity. Remailer operators soon > find > that a substantial majority of the messages they send contain nothing > but harrassment and threats. Just how would the remailer operators find

RE: Wired on e-gold,

2001-12-18 Thread mattd
Ive seen a good story somewhere on the e-dinar,if it was protected with world wide AP/PGP served by huge remailing networks it could be the one.Nomen RUN! The end is nigh. The other story this year (its not 2002 yet numbnuts) to raise a smile was the keystone Kops raid by the SS.Easy to see wha

Re: Wired on e-gold

2001-12-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:30 AM 12/19/2001 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > >Criminals love privacy, they love anonymity. Remailer operators soon find >that a substantial majority of the messages they send contain nothing >but harrassment and threats. Few customers use anonymity services >for positive purposes, to p

Wired on e-gold

2001-12-18 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nomen Nescio wrote: (snip) >With most people, if they have nothing to hide, they don't hide it. Why are you posting this from behind a remailer? >Only paranoids and extremists will adopt anonymity >technologies without nefarious purposes in mind.

Re: Wired on e-gold

2001-12-18 Thread georgemw
On 19 Dec 2001, at 1:30, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Of course the cypherpunk interest in e-gold revolves around its vaunted > privacy protection. The article provides a much-needed dose of reality to > those who still harbor fantasies that e-gold is interested in protecting > the privacy of its cust

Wired on e-gold

2001-12-18 Thread Nomen Nescio
The January, 2002 issue of Wired has an article on e-gold, the online payment system founded by retired oncologist Douglas Jackson. Much of the article discusses e-gold's misguided effort to link up with Islamic fundamentalists who want to overthrow capitalism. They are setting up a spinoff, e-di