Originally Posted by hobbes
Well, I don't think, as Boab suggests, that we can make the cards illegal just because someone might use them to support his "illegal website".
Boab, like myself, have looked at this from the perspective of how someone could use these cards to finance their child pornography. For instance, if I went to a kiddie porn site and signed up with my credit card, any FBI raid on the place would lead them to my doorstep. If I can access the site annonymously, using the appropriate proxys, I can remain hidden from the FBI as they have no way to track me (no credit card #).
The key is how to pay the porn site owner. Well you do so by paying for it at their legimate site using a porn card. Once you have credited their legit site, they allow to access a private site that is completely separate from the card system.
How will they learn about these hidden sites? I don't know, probably however they do it now. Little private chatroom on the internet or something.
One could just send the money, but gosh, it got lost again. And they know, even if they do this, you'll still be coming back.
The porn card is a great way to launder money, view kiddie porn under an extra layer of security and convenience and make the website owners W-2* look legit at the years end.
To answer your question, I think Boabs experience in criminology made him attempt to figure out how "bad guys" could use this to their advantage. BY knowing how to think like they do, he can anticipate problems which may arise and develop a plan to tackle them.
*A W-2 is a yearly earnings statement for income tax purposes- for those not in the USA.
