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I don't think having a third party instead of government control would be any better because the Snowden leaks showed us that the intelligence agencies will sim

• tzs 5y ago
  Instead of a third party make it shared among multiple third parties such that it requires agreement among N of the third parties to reveal an identity. Spread the third parties among jurisdictions and make N large enough that no government has enough of the third parties under its jurisdiction to be able to coerce an identity reveal.
• dane-pgp 5y ago
  Yes, and I'm surprised that mandatory data retention by ISPs hasn't already gone further down that slippery slope. Now that people are used to that idea, I expect a government to say "Why don't you store the logs on our computers instead, to save money and be protected with military-grade security. We promise we will still go to the hassle of getting a warrant before reading from the database... Unless of course there's an emergency...". Perhaps the reason they haven't said this yet is because government cyber-security agencies have already gained real-time unwarranted access to the ISPs' logs. I don't suppose a company could be sued for not correctly securing this data against the government, since the government could hide behind "national security" to block any evidence being admitted in a court case.