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> anonymity is provided to everyone, although such a system would know a unique ID Wait what? That's a failure from the start. User of such system should be 10
by zalew 14y ago
> anonymity is provided to everyone, although such a system would know a unique ID
Wait what? That's a failure from the start. User of such system should be 100% anonymous, untrackable, and not give a damn about personal rewards. With all the corruption leverage the cartels have, all their creativity (tunnels, submarines), and quality of business operations (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-dr...) I imagine surveilling local network traffic looking for unique ids and connecting the dots through data mining would be kind of a task of intermediate difficulty for them. To work at all, it would probably have to be run over Tor, but setting up Tor properly to avoid leaving fingerprints is a task for advanced internet users, while in this situation being less tech-savvy could be deadly.
Second, this system also could be used for deception. If an innocent citizen can report events and locations, why wouldn't the cartel use it to fool authorities?
Third, it looks like an offer to throw even more money into the 'war on drugs' sinkhole, only disguised as 'fighting with technology', 'technological workaround to the fear', and other BS propaganda.
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoDon't forget phishing e-mails. "Please go to googlerewards.com to claim your $10,000" Name: Address: Information supplied:
- raphman 14y agoand of course, drug cartel strawmen could earn money for selling rivals, defectors, or dangerous police officers to the authorities.
- elviejo 14y agoYeap the way to provide reliabilty is if several anonymous sources report the same problem. Also this system if the report is by smartphone it could provide GPS to know the location of an incident. but complete anonimity is crucial. And also the peoplo must believe they are anonymous. some people that dare to report a crime do it from a public phone, they know what happens that do it from their cellphone.