Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Fri Apr 13 14:33:24 PDT 2001
You realize those are the exact same questions I've been asking of the
crypto-anarchist since day one?
Careful, you're going to be agreeing with me pretty soon...
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Aimee Farr wrote:
> I find open source information banking/trading/merchant (whatever) systems
> problematic propositions, beyond anonymous cash, especially viewed in light
> of this hypothetical on a distributed open source intelligence
> haven-brokerage.
>
> i.e. How do you set yourself up as an anonymous, neutral, info-Switzerland?
> ...How will you obtain critical mass and critical trust? ...Where is your
> back-door, infosec accountability if you are nothing but digital wind?
> ...How do you set up a buy-sell marketplace for intelligence -- the value
> of which cannot be determined prior to analysis, even where there is a
> robust reputation capital metric in place? ...How do you enforce polycentric
> merchant society rules in the context of an anonymous transactional system?
> ...Requirements for admission? ...Quality control? Reputational
> systems?...What is your post-transactional enforcement mechanism? ...MUST
> you have anon cash? (Just lotsa questions.)
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