At 11:45 AM -0700 7/23/97, Mike Duvos wrote:
In response to outside pressure, Swiss bankers have abandoned their traditional secrecy laws and published a list of all bank accounts opened by non-Swiss citizens prior to May 9th, 1945, the end of World War II.
This list and instructions for claiming your share of the millions of dollars offered may be found at...
This again shows the importance of _technological_ solutions to privacy and secrecy concerns over _custom_ or _law_ solutions. And we can expect this example of Nazi accounts for gold stolen from Jews and others to be used in the propaganda campaign against untraceable money and secure banking. "Digital cash would make restitution impossible for the Jews!" Of course, had the Jews had secure, untraceable assets in the 1930s, instead of lots of gold coins and jewelry to store their wealth, Hitler would have had a lot harder time seizing the assets. Details, details. (Not to mention the seizure of American gold by Reichsfuhrer Roosevelt in 1933.) Fact is, governments around the world want control of the assets of their subjects, for taxation, for seizure, and for general control. Anything that allows citizen units to have assets unreachable by the thugs in power is a danger to them. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."