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You cannot protect your privacy with just mathematics. It won't help against government tracking your cell phone location or looking into your bank account.
by codedokode 10y ago
You cannot protect your privacy with just mathematics. It won't help against government tracking your cell phone location or looking into your bank account.
- mcbits 10y agoThere are plausible solutions for both of those, or at least a clear direction to look for solutions. Unfortunately, there tends to be a critical mass that decentralized systems need to reach in terms of adoption before they become truly feasible. Consumers aren't interested in buying a "UWB mesh hub" or some such, which wouldn't appear to do anything but drain batteries. But they might, for example, buy a car stereo or security system that uses a wireless device to deliver specific features, and which also happens to help saturate the city with a p2p mesh network. Likewise with cryptocurrency, most people are not interested in the hassle for some intangible privacy benefit. But a lot of people might be interested in a crypto video game currency that can be easily traded, even between games. Or perhaps a currency-like mechanism to implement quotas on the mesh.