On Wednesday 18 May 2011 03:34 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:

Yep. I've written about this, and many people have suggested that Tor is a way around that: see http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2011/05/12/bitcoin-security/

That's called a pipe dream. 1. Tor nodes get sniffed and monitored, a lot - eg http://lwn.net/Articles/249388/ so certainly not a substitute for strong encryption [e&oe mitm attacks in fake tor nodes etc] 2. There's all the "follow the money" aspect that lets the transaction get traced back to you one way or the other 3. You'll find that - as with most of the other currency equivalents like webmoney, its all too easy for the service to get a rep for being primarily used by carders and botmasters [the second highest user constitutency would be the sort of german geek who pgp signs everything from a post to mutt-users to an email to his wife reminding her to take the dog to the vet] <- not sure why its mostly german geeks who do this srs ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE