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On Friday, June 26, 2020 11:54 PM, таракан <cryptoanalyzers@protonmail.com> wrote:
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My understanding of Cypherpunks is - as per their Manifesto - that they are trying to build privacy in a world where privacy is becoming a crime.
I thought recently that the biggest 'weapon' against a fascism regime would be to create the inability for that fascist regime to track, locate, monitor and spy someone.
in the words of every hacker ever: "What's your threat model?"
nation state attackers are fairly infallible, unless you're personally gifted and/or well resourced...
I walk in the street right now. Nobody knows who I am.
check out Clearview AI - and remember this is a commercial, non-classified effort!
My neighbor doesn't know my name. I rent a flat without any ID. Nobody knows my name.
finding the friendly landlord landlady who likes cash, month to month, is great. not that digital payments are not cash equivalents, however!
My SIM card isn't linked to any ID (true).
check out "The Find", and other techniques that are designed to work against burner phones; they attack pattern of life data exhaust across all cell tower radios in addition to targeted attacks against specific baseband chipsets of "selected" targets....
My credit card isn't my own credit card but belongs to someone who doesn't know me really. I get paid in Bitcoins. I go to a local shop and get cash against BTC without showing any ID.
next up, employ a mixer / tumbler when transacting BTC to avoid deanonymization attacks against the network itself. :P
My phone cannot track me because it hasn'\t a GPS and so on ...
note that tower based triangulation is nearly as effective as GPS, in terms of geolocation privacy risk.
I know that with the time that sort of life will be harder and harder. Hence I feel it is a noble task to build a system where people can live a normal life and stay anonymous - as they want.
indeed! as mentioned before:
first deploy encryption to kill passive Eve's ears.
then keying Hardened end-to-end to avoid active Mallory in the Middle.
finally, harden Physical Security against burglary and rubber brutes...
Interesting enough soon there will be Quantum crypto, and maybe NSA has already it.
How long can we trust these good old programs such as PGP? RSA wouldn't last a long time against a quantum computer ...
side benefit of privacy enhancing technologies like Fully Homomorphic Encryption: they're resistant to quantum attacks (e,g. Post-Quantum ready crypto :)
best regards,