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> A criminal conspiracy can now use the "Wasn't me, must have been some random Twitter employees" defense. I could see this being billed as a feature of a priv
by BeFlatXIII 4y ago
> A criminal conspiracy can now use the "Wasn't me, must have been some random Twitter employees" defense.
I could see this being billed as a feature of a privacy-forward chat platform. Messages are slipped into conversations without either party having actually sent them and no way to tell whether they were real or not.
- vineyardmike 4y agoI’ve heard of similar things to this being discussed… Eg. simple things like tracking-busters where it randomly clicks links in headless chrome to fool the algorithm, p2p vpns where you use a random user’s IP address to randomize who made what request, etc. There is also a school of thought that you should periodically publish private keys for plausible deniability (“was it me, or did someone sign that after I published the key”).
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoLong live deliberate incompetence! Let's fill the world with a cloud of uncertainty.
- vineyardmike 4y agoIt’s deliberate plausible deniability.