6/29 Say that I, like Justice Ginsburg, want to be able to view an
adult site that requires a credit card, but I don't want to use
a credit card that can be traced back to me. Are there credible
anonymous credit cards out there? Something along the lines of
an escrow service that allows me to purchase $x in credit that I
can then apply to an Internet purchase?
\_ Beware of subscribing to any Internet porn site. Some of them
support psuedo-anonymous ecash style transactions, but since
they have to send you your login information they still require
an email address. They _will_ sell that email address to every
spammer on the planet.
\_ Why give a real email address to porn site operators?
\_ I seem to remember hearing about a service that would
generate credit card numbers for one-time use. They were for
the purposes of purchasing stuff over an insecure channel
so that if the number was stolen your credit card company
would never authorize it again anyway. I think citibank
provided this service. But I guess these were still linked
back to your account and thus not anonymous.
I wonder if it be hard to set-up some service that did something
like this.
\_ Something tells me the Department of Homeland Security wouldn't
be very amused by that.
\_ check out http://www.webcertificate.com
\_ A good start, but requires a credit card to purchase. Still
trackable.
\_ no it doesn't. The whole point of webcertificate is that
someone else can give you one of these temporary credit
cards as a gift. The person who put the funds into the
account is not necessarily the same person making the
purchases on the account.
\_ Why would you want to pay for internet porn?
\_ Wouldn't a Visa gift card work for this purpose? AFAIK, there
is no way to track who is using the card as long as you use
it w/ the pin number. You can also buy them using cash at most
banks so its not traceable. |