From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 10:40:11 MDT
The DARPA experiment that Robin helped design has been cancelled:
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/ny-terrormarket0729,0,6260339.story?coll=nyc-topnews-short-navigation
CNBC is running a poll about whether it was a good idea. Please vote at:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Promos/P56709.asp
The reports indicate that it planned to provide anonymity (it's not
clear how reliable such anonymity would have been), which could have
enabled terrorists to profit from crimes under some conditions (probably
only after years of testing under which the amounts traded gradually
increased to levels that matter).
Don't despair too much - life insurance was initially attacked in
similar terms.
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