On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 10:08:20AM -0000, 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?
>
> Contrast this with one million dollars of anonymous digital cash.
> Such cash can be converted into bank deposits untraceably, and from
> there used to buy the real goods which the criminals want.
>
> Until you can point to some form of data which is reasonably fungible,
> can be provided by the victim, and unarguably worth millions of dollars,
> this argument does not hold.
>
>
Dear Mr. Federal Reserve Board Governor,
If you want to see your pet poodle Fluffy again, encrypt the decisions
of the next 3 board meetings to this public key (xxxyyyzzz...) and
post to alt.ransom.payments before the decisions are made public.
Have a nice day.
--
Scott V. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
GnuPG key available at http://physics.syr.edu/~svmcguir
GnuPG key fingerprint: 21EA 4999 3620 3E1D 71EC 98A9 5B9B EF52 1258 6D53
GnuPG is at http://www.gnupg.org/
