IV. Privacy

Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. For us, it’s essential to protect privacy in both communications and transactions, as well as being a pseudo-anonymous platform. Additionally, we strive to provide the right of total anonymity.

Wall of shame collective generation

• Active participation
• Each person say one thing

“Privacy is dead, get over it” - traffickers in human attention

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

(https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html)

Cypherpunk

• Small mailing list in 90s
• A lot of core ideas and people
• BitTorrent, Wikileaks, Remailers, PGP, Bitcoin, smart contracts, Bitcoin, EFF, etc

As a natural right

• Offline privacy and blunted human intuition
• Confusingly connected
• Power of strong encryption
• Against the grain

Example: Vitalik

(https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8m3wj1/rothschilds_in_crypto_goodbadneutral/dzmspgv/)

Privacy guarantees

• Private chat
• • What: E2EE chat, PFS
• • Who: darkness/metadata (traffic analysis)
• Private transactions (ZK-S(N/T)ARKS)
• • Multiple wallets

Pseudo-anonymous

• “False” name, Whisper key
• Voltaire and the king
• Total anonymity?

Bits of entropy illustration

Exercise

Metadata, who cares?

“We kill people based on metadata” - Michael Hayden (ex NSA director)

Wall of shame

1. We don’t know what we are leaking
2. We don’t support private transactions
3. We don’t support multiple identities/wallets

Thanks