I reprise my role as a recurring character in Neal's nonfiction
in another lengthy, but excellent article In
The Beginning Was the Command Line. (Now a book.)
The Internet is like a multi-media Babel Fish. It
lets us communicate with great immediacy and little forethought.
In a matter of seconds we can send our ill-considered opinions,
our home videos, our get-rich-quick schemes, even scanned images
of our genitals, racing around the world, impacting hundreds if
not thousands of legal jurisdictions, evoking amusement, boredom
or offense in tens of thousands of communities... each with its
unique set of community standards.
A trip
report from an anti-money laundering conference I attended in
1995. Here's a quote from one of the papers given there:
In sum, a Luxembourg bank with no office in the US
was charged and convicted of money laundering in the US on the basis
of clearing US dollar negotiable instruments drawn on a US bank
but deposited by non-US citizens in Luxembourg. In other words,
acceptance of US-dollar negotiable instruments by a bank anywhere
in the world outside of the US renders the bank susceptible to US
criminal jurisdiction in the money laundering field.
Identity Agnostic Online Cash A note
explaining why it is that a potentially anonymous ecash mint doesn't
practice David Chaum's patent on blind signatures. A version was originally
presented at the Crypto '95 "rump" session
