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Will this system hinder our enforcement of slave trafficking and murder for hire laws? What are people going to do, stick a person in a box with a bunch of laundry detergent to mask the smell, then drop the box in the mail? Is an assassin's bullet going to travel over this network instead of through the air?

Those transactions are still going to have "meatspace" components which are, and will remain, the weak point that law enforcement will target.

Tor and bitcoin already exist, if mobs want to use those systems, they already can. The utility in systems like SR is reputation management and connection discovery. In other words, this system would really be nothing more than a craigslist that doesn't claim to take down ads for hookers. It shouldn't frighten you.




That is a valid point.




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