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account42today at 12:37 PM1 replyview on HN

But what's the alternative to shops strip searching you every time you want to buys something? Shops need a way to prevent looters overwhelming them, and there's no perfect way to distinguish real shoppers from looters.


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bombcartoday at 1:20 PM

One solution is to leave a deposit worth more than anything you could loot. What that means in the computing world is those silly browser-based crypto-solvers.