[67532] in Cypherpunks
Re: "European Union Bank"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Oct 7 13:57:49 1996
To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Oct 1996 10:36:46 PDT."
<199610071736.KAA21570@slack.lne.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 13:40:02 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Eric Murray writes:
> Perry E. Metzger writes:
> > Be that as it may, but I wonder about the whole thing. EUBank's web
> > server appears to be firmly ensconced in Washington, D.C. -- not
> > exactly where one would expect their records to be kept, eh?
>
> I noticed that too. Is this BCCI 2, or just a front that the forces
> of repression can use to say "look, there is money-laundering
> on the Internet! We must control it."
Or, perhaps, they are just a way for the IRS to get the names of lots
of people interested in offshore banking. Or maybe not. Who knows?
Perry
