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Reputation works with pseudonymous identities too, and those have security upsides (eg can't be as easily pressed into service of others by extortion or rubber
by fulafel 3y ago
Reputation works with pseudonymous identities too, and those have security upsides (eg can't be as easily pressed into service of others by extortion or rubber hose). And of course privacy is a value in itself.
- dist-epoch 3y agoYou can build multiple pseudonymous identities in parallel. If one is burned, it doesn't matter, you still have 9 other.
- solatic 3y agoThink of it like politics: politicians are public figures who, by virtue of becoming a public figure, give up many of their rights to privacy. Why? Because they have power, and the public has a right to know who exercises that power. For security-hardened distributions, I can easily imagine a security control where contributor identity must be public and publicly verifiable, and to reject code which cannot be reliably attributed. Don't like it? Contribute to software with less impact instead.