Maybe it would be better to get rid of muggers instead of cash?
And how do you propose to do that? Pre-crime?
In Sweden, cash is king no more
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Re: In Sweden, cash is king no more
#82Why can't a thief force you to transfer money electronically just like the money was transfered for the church donation? (I am not saying that the church donation was coerced.)
Presumably because the transaction would be logged and he would get immediately caught.
Re: In Sweden, cash is king no more
#83Swede here. There is a part of the article that warrants special attention: > The number of bank robberies in Sweden plunged from 110 in 2008 to 16 in 2011 — the lowest level since it started keeping records 30 years ago. It says robberies of security transports are also down. It was not long ago when armed robberies of security transports were a serious serious problem. Now when the article mentions it, I make a men…
> The flip side is the risk of cybercrimes. According to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention the number of computerized fraud cases, including skimming, surged to nearly 20,000 in 2011 from 3,304 in 2000.
Damn flip sides...
Re: In Sweden, cash is king no more
#84Why can't a thief force you to transfer money electronically just like the money was transfered for the church donation? (I am not saying that the church donation was coerced.)
Presumably because the transaction would be logged and he would get immediately caught.
Have you ever seen how quickly money is moved/laundered after an ATM skimming operation?
Re: In Sweden, cash is king no more
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually it's much worse than this, because while your identifying information is most likely not interesting, aggregate network flows are . For example, when a node tends to aggregate transactions, we can infer that they are a 'merchant'. If their public key doesn't correspond to a known business, we can infer that they are engaged in unregulated commerce and investigate. Nevermind the very real possibility of havin…
If a payment technology can't be used to incentivize TOR nodes, it is not anonymous. You can incentivize me to run more nodes with AMEX, Visa, MC, Travelers Checks, cash, red lobster gift certifcates or gold dubloons. From your comment that I quoted below its obvious you care about this field but I'm not sure where you were going with the above statement? Throwing around the word 'anonymity' when one means 'psuedonym…
I mean an addition to TOR where a user is explicitly paying each hop for transit. To do this (without buying nHops*nNyms count of unconnected red lobster gift cards), it must be possible to split a single source of value into two unassociable parts.
Re: In Sweden, cash is king no more
#86Swede here, and as paranoid as the next person. I moved from Gmail due to privacy concerns. I block a lot of tracking domains at DNS level. However, those are trade-offs with very little negative impact in my daily routines. A slightly worse UI for my email is nothing like moving from cards back to cash. It would be like moving from the Internet back to snail mail because email is insecure, or perhaps to Stallman typ…
what email solution do you use? I've been thinking about a change too
I get email services from my VPS provider and use it with a desktop email client or, increasingly, on my phone. They have a crappy Squirrel webmail that I very rarely use.