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hello /g/
I'm only asking this out of curiosity. There's obviously no way I can prove this is theoretical, so I won't waste my breath. Believe what you want.
Does crime have a whole new dimension in a decentralized world? With the holy trinity of anonymized messaging / anonymous currency / dead drops, the possibilities for crime abound.
Let's say I (a theoretical thief) steal someone's art portfolio from a coffee shop. I then figure out what their email is, and send them a ransom note via TOR. If they give me $200 in BitCoin, I'll let them know where I left their portfolio.
>Alternately, someone sends me $50 in BTC, and I let them know where a cache of drugs is.
Assuming I didn't fuck up the IP masking or leave forsenic evidence, how would law go about tracking me down? It seems like their only option is put security cameras everywhere, or wait for me to fuck up.
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*foresnic
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>dead drop market becomes saturated with honey pots
>incidental cctv captures of people going to and leaving dead drop location
>stake outs when drop locations get popular
think harder
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That's why the government is slowly pushing against general computing, using major software developers like Google and Microsoft which are basically vassals of the government, to make it as difficult or illegal as possible to encrypt information or compute anonymously, and even if you can, they're sure to have 10 or 11 back doors in or pieces of botnet you can't remove.
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