On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, Scott Brickner wrote:
Nathan Loofbourrow writes:
And there's another item of note: each chip has a unique, etched, machine-readable serial number. What are the bets that Dallas Semiconductor can tell you who purchased that chip? Well, so much for an anonymous payment scheme based on *this* product.
Some enterprising cypherpunks can buy a bunch and resell 'em for cash.
And then sell the serial address for cash. How do I know that they (this means YOU! :> ) don't work for the company? (which is a contracter for, blackmail-victim of, tentacle of NSA, CSE, TCMAY, Purplenet, your fairy-stepmother ...) Of course there's always the mail-drop & forward-net... (anyone one know maildrop company addresses, the possible (il)legality of these things or any reported monitoring cases? A physical remailernet might come to matter in an economy where the "split" between an untaxable info economy and a taxable physical economy become pronounced. Though it's kinda hard to encrypt and reorder packages.)