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Yes, everyone's metadata (profile, posts, and favorites) are publicly visible. In this sense, Nightweb is anonymous, but not private. I may add private sharing
by gw 13y ago
Yes, everyone's metadata (profile, posts, and favorites) are publicly visible. In this sense, Nightweb is anonymous, but not private. I may add private sharing in the future, but it's a complicated thing to implement.
- dustingetz 13y agoSo it's anonymous like bitcoin is anonymous - which is to say that keeping your identity a secret over the long term takes great effort. Do I understand correctly?
- gw 13y agoI don't agree that it takes "great effort", because I don't think there is only one standard of anonymity. If you expect to be sought after by a well-financed adversary, of course you should be diligent about what you share, and maybe even change your identity regularly (which Nightweb now supports). Others may just want a reasonable level of anonymity, and will have no problem mentioning the city they live in. Others may use Nightweb with their real names. I think you will get whatever you put into it.
- ipsin 13y agoThis seems like a very cool project, but I don't see how it provides real anonymity. What concerns me isn't even "a well-financed adversary", but "someone who is curious about who you are, and has spare time to think about it". Changing your identity regularly doesn't seem terribly useful either, if you then re-form the same relationships with the same people. Any detail a "friend" provides is a clue, and these clues can be used to re-describe the network. I'm not trying to be a wet blanket here, I'm just concerned that Nightweb is something it's not.
- gw 13y agoThis line of argument has never concerned me, because it is a tautology: If people expose parts of their identity in Nightweb, then parts of their identity will be exposed on Nightweb. There is no reason your relationships in Nightweb have to align with your offline relationships.
- dustingetz 13y agofriend, i wish i could convince you otherwise. there's a difference between exposing your identity to people you trust, and exposing your identity to the entire world. I would use a product that lets gay people talk to other gay people without leaking information. No other product can protect free speech, and if nightweb can't protect free speech, then what's the point?
- ipsin 13y agoYou claim it's a tautology, but I think it's inevitable. Communication is the act of exposing information, and if any persistent, well-audited system will, used for long enough, allow you to expose yourself. Your online and offline relationships do not have to align, but good luck hiding information in every single one of your interactions.
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- dustingetz 13y agobitcoin standard practice is to create a new identity with every single transaction, and that's been proven to be insufficient for anonymity against an academic, let alone a government.