Lawrence Lessig’s “alpha version” talk about corruption is well worth watching:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2171306322262202538

It’s an hour long, but I found it quite enjoyable. One thing that he mentioned briefly was the concept of political finance anonymization. Right now there are several efforts aimed at making political financing more transparent, but this would do the opposite. Make it so that campaigns are unable to determine who is giving them money. Donors can tell the campaigns that “hey, I gave you $1000″, but anyone could say that just as easily, so the politicians would have less incentive to do what their donors want.

I don’t think the idea’s perfect, but it is interesting and I hadn’t heard about it before.