[81521] in Cypherpunks
Re: Thoughtcrime (Re: My War) (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Tue Jun 10 00:55:55 1997
To: tcmay@got.net (Tim May)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:22:09 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <v03102813afc280fe6067@[207.167.93.63]> from "Tim May" at Jun 9, 97 09:08:22 pm
From: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Tim May wrote:
> It's all very complicated. And strong crypto, of course, is on the verge of
> making the risk of getting caught near zero. You know the rest.
I do not think that it is "on the verge", rather, it is there already.
I have a business plan. It presumes that I can RECEIVE cash
anonymously and operate in a certain city. As far as I understand,
a modification of existing protocols allows to implement anonymity
of payees.
I open a trug trading center at, for example,
drugz@anonymous.mailserver.com. Alternatively, I can publish my public
key in alt.anonymous.messages.
Drug addicts would send me digital cash and specify which drugs they
wish to receive, and send me their public keys. I would place their
drugs in some random place in that city, and then send them (anonymously)
the location of the place so that they can pick it up.
I do not see how I can be detected, modulo the security of anonymous
remailers. Since my reputation will be based on PGP authentication, I
will have an incentive not to cheat.
- Igor.
P.S. I do not believe that anon remailers provide an adequate security.
