Comment on Simplifying Crypto Parties
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Have you heard of surveillance cameras and facial recognition? If a hostile actor knows in advance that members of a targeted online community will be physically present at a location at a given time, those people will be linked to the community. It doesn’t take a lot from then to link specific persons to accounts.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
if the group of people registering their names is big enough, facial recognition doesn’t do much, as it can only link the person to one-of-a-hundred-or-thousand account names.
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t think you fully comprehend just how many footprints people leave behind on the internet. Users would have to practice perfect opsec – and I mean completely, absolutely perfect. One mistake, like using an e-mail address or an alias off-site, will link a person to the account. It’s happened before.
Thinking you can solve the issue of privacy with a single idea is simply delusional.