On 17 Jan 2013 at 10:58, DEREK STANLEY wrote:
> I'm not talking about hijacking an xboat. The xboat network is a web,
> we can assume that there are a number of xboats at every hub but
> probably not enough to hit every star within J 6 every day of the
> year. This you're going to end up with lag between systems within J6
> that could end up being days or even weeks.
> What I'm talking about is exploiting the hole in the web created by
> prioritizing routes.
And "it's been done" *millennia* ago. That's the thing with the long
history of the various imperiums. "All" the scams were used centuries
ago and are either protected against (strong encryption/public keys
to verify inter bank transfers) or no longer possible (credit/debit
card use between systems).
It may be possible to *occasionally* pull off a scam. But those will
be mostly faking ID so they can use stolen Letters of Credit. If they
were easily forged (or even forgeable without *extreme* difficulty)
the banking system would fall apart.
Since there *is* a banking system, then LOCs must be essentially
impossible to forge, and for that matter they likely have enough info
to require *really* good fake ID to use a stolen one.
Mind you, every once in a while someone will conspire with someone at
another bank to issue invalid LOCs and convert them to cash or
valuable goods on another planet.
But that's just another form of embezzling.
--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com
> I'm not talking about hijacking an xboat. The xboat network is a web,
> we can assume that there are a number of xboats at every hub but
> probably not enough to hit every star within J 6 every day of the
> year. This you're going to end up with lag between systems within J6
> that could end up being days or even weeks.
> What I'm talking about is exploiting the hole in the web created by
> prioritizing routes.
And "it's been done" *millennia* ago. That's the thing with the long
history of the various imperiums. "All" the scams were used centuries
ago and are either protected against (strong encryption/public keys
to verify inter bank transfers) or no longer possible (credit/debit
card use between systems).
It may be possible to *occasionally* pull off a scam. But those will
be mostly faking ID so they can use stolen Letters of Credit. If they
were easily forged (or even forgeable without *extreme* difficulty)
the banking system would fall apart.
Since there *is* a banking system, then LOCs must be essentially
impossible to forge, and for that matter they likely have enough info
to require *really* good fake ID to use a stolen one.
Mind you, every once in a while someone will conspire with someone at
another bank to issue invalid LOCs and convert them to cash or
valuable goods on another planet.
But that's just another form of embezzling.
--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com