The Eurodollar market got started because Russia feared arbitrary confiscation of its dollar bank accounts.
Not actually true. It was because US banks were subject to statutory limits on the amount of interest they could pay on dollar deposits.
At present it seems to me that unix machines on the internet are intrinsicly insecure -- the methods used to secure them are a collection of ad hoc patches. For example all unix machines are vulnerable to the trojan horse attack.
Banks are intrinsically insecure. All banks are subject to the "sawn-off shotgun" attack, also the "kidnap the managers family" attack and several others.
Windows NT is supposedly secure. Certainly its design makes it possible to write software that is intrinsicly secure,
Why do you think that? Certainly it's compartmentalism is better than UNIX, and as a "ground-up" design it's probably seen better QA than UNIX. However, it hasn't had 20 years of interest from hackers and others. Also, while the NT kernel may be *better*, several subsystems have all the problems of UNIX, e.g. TCP/IP and the sequence number attack. I like NT, but it will never be a security panacea. -- Richard Parratt