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Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Tue Sep 9 11:02:52 2003
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:39:47 -0700
To: "Joseph Ashwood" <ashwood@msn.com>, <cypherpunks@lne.com>,
<cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: Steve Schear <s.schear@comcast.net>
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At 04:51 PM 9/8/2003 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Schear" <s.schear@comcast.net>
>To: <cypherpunks@lne.com>; <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
>[anonymous funding of politicians]
> > Comments?
>
>Simple attack: Bob talks to soon to be bought politician. "Tomorrow you'll
>recieve a donation of $50k, you'll know where it came from."
>Next day, buyer makes 500 $100 donations (remember you can't link him to any
>transaction), 50k arrives through the mix. Politician knows where it came
>from, but no one can prove it.
Not so fast. I said the mix would delay and randomize the arrival of
payments. So, some of the contributions would arrive almost immediately
others/many might take weeks to arrive.
steve
"...for every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,
and wrong."
-- H.L. Mencken
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