From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:45:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Movie/Research Research (fwd)
Message-ID: <199809090201.VAA12886@einstein.ssz.com>
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> From: WGKOPP@aol.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:33:54 EDT
> Subject: Movie/Research Research

> The "villians" are charging people $15 (from their credit card - or another
> source) to download or "watch"  a video clip of highly illicit material, from
> a specific website.
> Our "protagonist" has to stop these "video's" and the people behind them, but,
> they cannot seem to trace them, or where the funds are going. 
> 
> How can this be done? How can we realistically make it so that origins and/or
> location & authors of the website are untraceable. Also, that the funds are
> untraceable.

You'd need to use something like an eternity server or a data haven. These
allow one to obtain information from an unknown 3rd party based on a
distributed network of servers and search engines.

All transactions of e$ would need to go through an anonymous remailer of
some sort that interfaced to a suitable bank handlding EFT's via the
Internet.

The web surfing could be implimented via a CROWDS style mechanism.


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