The Erosion of Financial Privacy - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Erosion of Financial Privacy - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is a bit on privacy from Eric Hughes’s Cypherpunk’s Manifesto of 1993. Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to kno...
Currency transaction reports and suspicious transaction reports, do they not sound like something the Stasi would demand in communist East Germany?
No. Not in the slightest. They’re a response to crimes of capitalism committed by capitalists governed by capitalists. If making sure everyone gets equity means people moving about 20% of the median American yearly salary have to be transparent, I’m okay with that.
Cash and maybe gnu taler
Never heard of gnu taler. Looks very promising.
Maybe, we'll have to wait and see
In Australia some companies --banks-- are starting to refuse taking/using cash. Killing privacy, slowly. Most normies can't see how that and will be used to track you.
In Canada, the Feds changed the law 2 years ago. They can now lock you out of your bank accounts without a court order. Which was needed before.
Monero is the answer to this
Yeah no, I'm not using a sketchy crypto with a unstable value for my personal finances.
Its a good thought but crypto is not the answer
You not knowing don't mean jack squat.
This might be FUD, but... Vastaamo hacker traced via ‘untraceable’ Monero transactions, police says. (Edit) - A video debunking the police report - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7CD_Nl3iwhE
I'm so tired of the misinformation about Monero being traced to catch Finnish hacker. The hacker just had one of the worst opsecs imagineable and .tar'ed his entire home directory when trying to upload the information on the dark web, and ended up as a result, uploading his entire home directory. Once you do that it becomes pretty easy to identify who the fuck you are and track you down. Here is a video by mental outlaw going more in depth.https://youtu.be/7CD_Nl3iwhE&t=0
I am not a crypto bro myself and personally don't see volatile cryptocurrency as a solution but I'm tired of hearing "Monero traced back to its user" NO. Monero USER was found because of OTHER bad opsec practices.