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

[Steven Schear]

I've been waiting for Loopix, or a similar, anonymity overlay to go into
widespread testing but it's seems to be stillborn.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 4:38 PM Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

> 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>
> >
>
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