Without getting into the ethics of WikiLeak's activities, I'm disturbed that Visa, MasterCard and PayPal have all seen fit to police the organization by refusing to act as a middleman for donations. The whole affair drives home how dependent we are on a few corporations to make e-commerce function, and how little those corporations guarantee us anything in the way of rights. In the short term, we may be stuck, but in the longer term, quantum money could help solve the problems by providing a secure currency that can be used without resort to a broker. Physicist Steve Wiesner first proposed the concept of quantum money in 1969. He realized that since quantum states can't be copied, their existence opens the door to unforgeable money. Here's how MIT computer scientist Scott Aaronson explained the principles:
Heisenberg’s famous Uncertainty Principle says you can either measure the position of a particle or ...
