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What deanonymising information for the vendors could be contained in the messages ? I get that buyers need to disclose their shipping address, but what would v
by 4gotunameagain 3y ago
What deanonymising information for the vendors could be contained in the messages ?
I get that buyers need to disclose their shipping address, but what would vendors disclose ?
- wombat-man 3y agoWise users would encrypt their shipping info. I guess crypto addresses could be traced to individuals.
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- ClassyJacket 3y agoBut how do you know the PGP key the market gave you is really the vendors and they didn't man-in-the-middle you?
- wombat-man 3y agoTrue I guess, some vendors have a presence outside the market where their public key may be verified.
- michaelmrose 3y agoLets speculate because this is kind of fun. Crypto addresses may be inadvertently linked to their real identity if they use the same address for anything else or regularly move crypto from another address that is itself linked to something that links back to them. They could use the platform to deal with distant people and people who at the time or later obtain enough info to rat them out. The rat bites the dust and then rolls on the dealer. An example would be a customer who later established a business relationship with the dealer. One could also use the platform as a means to exchange money instead of large stacks of dirty money. You could expose where you drop the goods and be caught on film in some fashion OR just follow the same pattern and get caught dropping later. The platform could have deliberately compromised dealers location or identity in some fashion in order to facilitate more effective blackmail.