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Re: 2008: The year of hack the vote?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Lloyd)
Fri Dec 28 12:22:37 2007
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:05:23 -0500
From: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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In-Reply-To: <47729620.4010208@nma.com>
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:57:52AM -0800, Ed Gerck wrote:
> In e-commerce there must be no privacy, the merchant must know who I am, my
> credit card must be valid.
The only reason this 'must' be true is because an anonymous and secure
payment system is a terror which thankfully our federal governments
and central banks protect us from. While Amazon and others obviously
like being able to build customer profiles of everyone, I don't doubt
that they would be perfectly willing to accept an anonymous payment as
long as the money is good (and, of course, that the transaction costs
are no more than a credit card and/or the order flow is sufficient
that it is worth building support for it).
Jack
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