[tor-talk] Can one make money running anonymity services?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 01:48:37AM +0200, antispam06 at sent.at wrote:

> But are there anonymous payment tools in this days of control? I just

Anonymous prepaid cards, or BitCoin over Tor would come to mind.

> received a new batch of questions asked by my banking institution. I
> must answer before a certain date or they are going to cut my access
> from my money. And they can do that. The explanation is fighting
> terrorism and money laundering. Half the questions on the list is just
> demographics for the bank to sell to third parties, but I can't afford a
> trial and loss of my account just because the government wanted more
> information and the bank seized the opportunity. Can one make any
> payment anonymous? Even the bakery has a security camera installed so
> using cash does not guarantee anonymity.