‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, June 26, 2020 11:54 PM, таракан <[email protected]> wrote: ...
> 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! E.g.: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html , https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/clearview-app-privacy-1.5447420 > 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 E.g. https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver , etc... > 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 :) C.f.: https://github.com/homenc/HElib , https://github.com/IBM/fhe-toolkit-macos , etc. best regards,
