Greetings:
This weekend I finished reading a novel that talks about many of
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issues of interest to this group. It's Christopher Reich, "Numbered Account," Delacorte Press. The author was a real Swiss banker for a few years. Now he writes a pretty darn good suspense novel featuring how numbered Swiss bank accounts work. In the cryptography debates, the FBI makes a big deal about how anonymous bank accounts can be used by drug smugglers, money launderers, international arms merchants, and anti- Western terrorists. They're all here in the novel. So are the U.S. government agents -- a bit bumbling, thoroughly obnoxious and self-righteous, but also genuinely concerned about stopping truly bad people. Reich also talks a bit about a new crypto system the bank develops for handling secret transactions.
Excuse me for asking, but what's so bad about "drug smugglers, money launderers, international arms merchants, and anti-Western terrorists." Edwin E. Smith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNU5m0UmNf6b56PAtEQJ9+wCfRNVsy7MEcbeQ7H5UZswN4aUqP6AAnipg QbOt7mM01LbEyIqOwG2DE83l =+S8l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- When freedom is outlawed.......Only outlaws will be free! If cryptography is outlawed, pomz pvumbxt xjmm ibwf dszquphsbqiz. Fun! Fast! Revealing! Try "The World's Smallest Political Quiz" at: http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html IS AIDS A GOVERNMENT/DRUG COMPANY HOAX? http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/index.htm