Re: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

[James A. Donald]

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At 05:29 PM 4/15/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> If I know a person's meatspace identity and
> ties with religious/social/family groups, I'm far more likely to lend
> them money then if they're using a throwaway hushmail account.
>
> If Bob is doing the latter, he won't get credit in the first place. If
> he's using a known meatspace identity, I can do the research and
> likely succeed.

But people on EBay do use nyms.  Naturally they prefer to do business with
a nym that has a long history of honestly completing deals on EBay.

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