This new Ethereum-based “assassination market” platform could cause Napster-size legal headaches MIT Technology Review Article

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 04:27:53PM -0700, Mirimir wrote:
> On 08/02/2018 04:14 PM, Steven Schear wrote:
> > "Augur’s creators claim they don’t have control over what its users choose
> > to do with the protocol—or the ability to shut it down. This creates a
> > problem that is “endemic” to blockchain technology, says Wright, who
> > recently co-wrote a book on the subject: “If you do not have a very
> > concrete intermediary—i.e., a company or group of people that are running
> > the marketplace—how do you apply laws and prevent that activity from
> > occurring?”
> > 
> > This is, as they say in marketing, not a problem but a feature.
> 
> Yep. I mean, that's the fucking point!
> 
> But I gotta say, they need to work on the anonymity aspect. The argument
> that participation anonymity doesn't matter, as long as adversaries
> can't attribute stuff, is weak. Look at Freenet, for example.

Free speech (free from censorship and arbitrary punishment against
'speech the state does not like') depends on anonymity, which depends
on the transport - e.g. localised face to face conversation on the
beach (and no sand bugs in your ears), or some form of mesh
networking.

At the very least, for digital anonymity, trusted entry nodes to a
network, some number (math math) of trusted peer nodes (if all your
entry node's peers are untrusted and say kill your link
simultaneously, or in symmetric semi-rapid succession, they will
likely be able to correlate your communication) and chaff fill links.

'Till then... pigs ain't flyin'.


> > On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 3:55 PM jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611757/this-new-ethereum-based-assassination-market-platform-could-cause-napster-size-legal/
> 
> <SNIP>
>