Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by 235337 3526 days ago
Isn't that beside the point? If you have all this money and they only suspect you have it, give you some court order for the money, then even if they can't get hands on the money neither can you. All they have to do is watch you, as a person, and your interaction with systems. That sort of thing is only getting more easy.

Furthermore with the push for "Online identity" they could just seize all your data storage and your various account information sets. Maybe your Ident never touched any of your personal hardware, or maybe you opened access to your hardware and pumped so many Idents through your confident they wont be able to figure out which is yours. But they can still out wait you.

I mean MAYBE with smart contracts will get us out of that.