-------- Original Message -------- From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> Apparently from: owner-cypherpunks@minder.net To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)] Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:13:59 -0800
-- On 10 Dec 2003 at 15:19, Nostradumbass@SAFe-mail.net wrote:
If you fund you accounts using money orders, you may be safe (depending on whether you've employed others to purchase the money orders or your physical identity is being captured at the money order agent during the transaction).
Some people offer a cash to e-gold service.
Though this is mostly discovered through direct communications, for obvious reasons.
Deposit a bundle of notes in their account, they will sell you e-gold. You use the low order bits of the amount as an ID.
Others have used the serial number of one of the bills submitted (e.g., the one highlighted with a yellow marker).
ALTA/DMT does have a certain degree of un-linkability in that once accounts are deleted all db references in the system to that account are also deleted from all ALTA/DMT dbs.
Trust us. Would we lie to you?
This info was obtained from discussions with the developers, experiments with the system and examination of the code.