'Borties!
If you travel across state lines for an abortion, modern surveillance can track you. Police are not supposed to do that, but laws are more notional, lately. Perhaps society became too infantilized and fractious and began to disassemble the infrastructure keeping the country intact. Whatever.
Automated license plate readers and other surprisingly panopticon measures allow for personalized tracking. All internet searches are discoverable by default. OSINT is an exciting new attack surface. Financial privacy has never been worse. Cash money is a dying breed, and hard to send safely over long distances. If you want to stockpile abortion pills before the long coming dark, how should you do so?
Mifepristone and misoprostol together will cause an abortion. Access to these drugs is limited in many regions, such as twelve states. Miso alone is highly likely to cause an abortion, and is a valid ulcer medication which you can get by being a bit creative. Miso is an abortifacient in the microgram range, which is to say you can dissolve 800ug of miso into ethanol, drip it onto paper, and mail it around like old-school LSD.
Bitcoin is hard to trace, compared to Paypal. But Bitcoin is traceable. You should not rely on bitcoin for strong anonymity. There are later-generation cryptocurrencies which are meaningfully more untraceable, such as ZCash and Hurricane and Monero.
It’s possible to have the people receiving the money not know who the buyer is, and the people shipping the packages to the buyer not actually know what’s in the packages. What a miracle, private-key encryption is. There’s a lot of darknet innovation not sufficiently propagated into the world, here.
We should distribute abortion pills tracelessly via vetted darknet methods.
(I wonder whether we could make a machine which decrypts an address, buys and prints a USPS shipping-label, then verifiably deletes that information. I wonder whether USPS will ship packages with only barcodes and no human-readable text on them. We should not do that, though; a cyberpunk package is more attention-grabbing than a bland one.)
The tech stack:
Buyer connects crypto wallet to website, transfers an amount, sends in an address encrypted with the company public key. We confirm payment. Addresses (still encrypted) go to a hireling in a warehouse. The warehouse contains sealed, tamper-evident Borties envelopes. The hireling with a TailsOS laptop decrypts the addresses and puts shipping labels onto packages. Securely delete addresses afterwards either via shred or hardware zeroing.
Onramping to crypto remains very difficult. They probably oughta buy a crypto voucher (Azteco) with cash at a store with no cameras, if they want to be clean about it. Then, redeem into a noncustodial wallet and exchange for something more traceless.
(If cash were invented today, it would be illegal.)
Maybe the real problem to tackle is the first one, making it easy to onboard onto crypto anonymously. I miss LocalMonero. I wonder whether anyone has solved the problem of armoring up a Monero ATM.