Dollar bills are essentially untracked, good everywhere, secure, work no matter what. Same goes for normal mail, and it's a federal offense to tamper with it.

Dollar bills are essentially untracked, good everywhere, secure, work no matter what. Same goes for normal mail, and it's a federal offense to tamper with it. Nothing electronic will ever be secure, unless it is never, ever networked. Networking changes "touch physical thing" into "everyone on the planet plus their bots" can touch it. Even if you pass harsh laws, you need to geogate network connections to only within that legal jurisdiction. Otherwise, it's pointless. The real, true problem is anonymousness. I used to advocate for, now I'm done. The problems anonymity solve, are a gnat compared to the ones it creates. I'm all for ipv8, but with a unique ID in the packet identifying the person directly. I can't drive a car, own a gun, drive a boat, buy explosives, ply many trades, and 100 other things without a license. Maybe unrestricted internet access is in that category, and bad behaviour means it is revoked. The Internet was a toy for a long time. Now it's the backbone of all commerce, industry, personal communication, with life threatening implications at times. Play time is over.