On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
Bus stations, train stations, airports, etc. are the WORST place to meet in a 'high technology' society. The crowds won't do you any good.
I should explain why,
Cameras stop time.
In this matter, I fear, Jim's moment to be right has come around again. Crowded noisy spaces are right when the threat model is humans listening and humans watching. When the threat model is machines recording, and data storage is cheap enough that people can go back through the system weeks or months later to see what went on exactly, Crowded noisy spaces are no longer right. I don't even know what spaces are right for meetings any more, especially considering that this came up in the context of getting a vagrant to act as your physical agent in purchasing a MO. The average vagrant has neither patience nor attention span nor trustworthiness for operations requiring more than a few hours of working for someone else, especially while holding a negotiable instrument and traversing a relatively witness-free space. *sigh*. At best, you trade one risk for another. At worst, the vagrant makes a fuss and yells for an officer and claims he's being robbed when you try to get the MO you paid for. Bear