From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:27:27 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Position escrow
Message-ID: <199804232027.WAA04314@basement.replay.com>
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Geraint Price wrote:
> This technology already exists in Britain (I don't know about any other
> countries), where you can buy a mobile without any subscription information
> off the shelf. To use the mobile, you go and purchase a 'token' which allows
> you to use the mobile on a pay-per-call basis much the same as a public phone.

Dan Todd wrote:
> 
> There is a similar (probably a number of them) service in parts of the US.
> While visiting Michigan recently I saw a wireless phone with a "calling
> card" from a company called Isis.  It appeared to be an anonymous, pre-paid
> cellular phone

Keep in mind that Timothy McVeigh thought he had anonymity with his
use of a prepaid 'anonymous' phone card over public payphones. He was
wrong. The testimony in this regard at McVeigh's trial was 'fixed'--not
in the 'facts' of tracing his identity, but in the 'timing' of tracing
his identity. i.e. - It was made to appear to be a longer and more
difficult process than it truly was.
It is highly unlikely that electronically-based 'anonymous' technology
is going to be any more untracable than meatspace-disseminated tools
of anonymity.

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