psst! wanna buy some anonymity, meester?

[Somebody]

In which a skeptical eye is cast on various
privacy enhanced web shopping tools. Here's
one gem from the article:

"Anonymity works in the favor of fraudsters,"
  -- VP at Visa.

http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=tech_a&slug=tech03

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