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This 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
by ipsin 13y ago
This 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.