psst! wanna buy some anonymity, meester?

In which a skeptical eye is cast on various privacy enhanced web shopping tools. Here's one gem from the article: "Anonymity works in the favor of fraudsters," -- VP at Visa. http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=tech_a&slug=tech03 --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'