Wired on e-gold

[Petro]

On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 04:30 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Criminals love privacy, they love anonymity.  Remailer operators soon 
> find
> that a substantial majority of the messages they send contain nothing
> but harrassment and threats.

	Just how would the remailer operators find this out?

	Are you implying that Remops read the mail passing through their 
machines?

> Few customers use anonymity services
> for positive purposes, to protect their privacy while engaging in
> legitimate activities.

	How do you know?

> With most people, if they have nothing to hide,
> they don't hide it.

	Everyone has something to hide.

	Everyone.

> Only paranoids and extremists will adopt anonymity
> technologies without nefarious purposes in mind.  Anyone proposing to
> offer new services for privacy and anonymity should be prepared to deal
> with the onslaught of criminals who will use the system for bad ends.

	If you mean by "Criminal" "One who breaks the law", well there are 
a lot of laws that have no legitimate purpose. If you mean by criminals 
"One who regularly commits immoral acts", then you are in much more 
trouble.
	
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