Theft Attempt or LEO Sting?

[measl at mfn.org]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

> At 12:21 AM -0700 on 6/15/02, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> 
> 
> > The security is proportional to wetware cycles burned per transaction.
> 
> I guess I don't think that's right.
> 
> Sooner, hopefully rather than later, machines will be able to buy things
> from other machines using on-line cash.
> 
> The risk will be absorbed by having a multitude of underwriters of cash
> instead of a single issuer for all cash, so you're partly right.
> 
> But the point is, you can have an authenticated on-line transaction, at
> least at a risk low enough to move all kinds of money around safely.

With all due respect, if this were [yet] true, I submit it would be
happening.

> 
> Cheers,
> RAH
> 
> 
> 

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J.A. Terranson
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If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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