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Old 05-25-2018, 05:00 PM   #1865 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
If you wanted to dabble with anonymity, you could.
If I wanted to dabble in commerce via Internet, I could. Bitcoin comes close to the 'anonymous digital cash' that the original cypherpunk greybeards required, but it's not quite there. Once Al Gore turned the credit card companies loose on Internet, that avenue was closed by the first mover advantage. Bummer.

I don't have illusions about anonymity. Email drafts don't work, game chat rooms don't work. HAM radio, too, it turns out. I just do everything in the clear and try to limit my attack surface. I posted on a different forum back in the 1990s. Now it's just Ecomodder. And a daily round of the news aggregators.

I don't know where Xist finds the time.
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