[68081] in Cypherpunks
extortion via digital cash (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Gimon)
Tue Oct 15 16:15:53 1996
From: gimonca@skypoint.com (Charles Gimon)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:48:44 -0500 (CDT)
Forwarded message:
> From: scottb@aca.ca
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:44:25 -0400
> Subject: extortion via digital cash
>
> Both ideas are bad, in that you stand a good chance at getting caught.
>
> I was wondering, what if you demanded payment via Ecash, through nym
> servers, aliases, etc. From what I understand, it is just like cash, ie: no
> record of transaction, but you get the added bonus of not having to meet the
> other party-like a fund transfer. Once you have your 1,000,000 Ecash, you
> could dump it on a disk, and close your internet account (unless you really
> really trust your privacy technology). And I also think that you would have
> the option to cash this into real funds at either the Mark Twain bank, or
> likely somewhere in the Caymen Islands (maybe through those online gambling
> houses).
>
The Digicash product only has one-way anonymity. Their own pages are
a good place to start:
http://www.digicash.nl/ecash/about.html
--CG
