From: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 12:47:16 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Cash
Message-ID: <199411182046.AA16284@panix.com>
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At 11:25 AM 11/18/94 PST, Dana Albrecht wrote:

>Assuming this is true, it would seem that even good, old fashioned,
>paper currency doesn't provide the level of anonymity that one
>would think.  Scary...
>

A couple of weeks ago, I paid a utility bill with a $50 FRN.  I was
amused(?) to see the clerk put the bill into the same printer they use to
print a little strip of payment receipt info on the bottom of your printed
bill and also on the bottom of some of their paperwork.  I guess they wanted
to trace the bill back to my account if it turned out to be phony.

DCF
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