-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:04:46 -0400 From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: July Freedom Forum Meeting
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Banks have been doing "electronic funds transfers" for years, and now ATM transactions have skyrocketed, due to their convenience. What happens when you can take complete control by saving your e-money right in your own personal computer's hard drive? Will there be competing e-currencies? Will transactions become invisible? The internet and new encryption techniques make the possibilities absolutely enthralling.
this SHOULD never happen, for the same reason that money cards (the one's with the chip embedded in the plastic) should never happen. I'll use the card as an example of why not... ok, say I DID get a money card... here's the process that makes the encryption, and/or any other security, useless. 1) get a bank loan, and transfer the $$ onto the card.. lets say $100,000... 2) copy the chip. 3) now go cash both at seperate ATM machines, the same day. 4) pay off your loan. (you decided you didn't NEED a house after all) 5) move to switzerland, because this is VERY tracable. you now have $100,000 CASH, and a small paper trail. No cryptanalisys required. Of course, this would require some equipment, but anybody who can afford the equipment, with, say a small loan, can pay back their loan that day, and still have a bit of spending cash. --Deviant -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMeNWdDAJap8fyDMVAQGkxAf9G+OQ1k93vrQH7Mo5uTIUjA7D7RmFZarJ jG/ul8AVBy3Ca6HL8xo0ZZKGNSatrcG/85rN6U9WJJIwoW3bxoW+1PearB8wwzvE 1iHBTvovzPy1QE2wjTy3wgtml/hDXW7tEfApp6CxxA26vcCRHyQ27xr2o5KGqjIi 3tEGOx+fMYwP9FGOMjyy63C2dzBG2MvXihvFF5jPiiZUinvv4W/qO/tCIKrBle+s edc+sVaLDZLxL7CGwIpeSU2ADQlb4fBypBT4OErdnm5KcGEwQ3lnLooCWHTsc1Gp vZ9gW5jqBzWtMOVg73PrGuyxwUC4hWLaA93aSJtkrOS1ZwRbNtikLg== =Qf6K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----