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DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 year agoPrivacy and anonymity are different things.
The post office knows who I am, my address, and who sends mail to me. They even know who I send mail to, if I write my return sender details on the envelope. I am not anonymous.
But, if the person we use ciphers to encrypt our letters, and only the two of us can decrypt and read them, our communications can indeed be considered private.
There’s a fundamental difference.
jack@monero.town 1 year ago
Okay, I get where you’re coming from. Signal is private enough for you, while I would feel more private if there is also no metadata about me.
For the toilet example, it’s more like that a foreign, unrelated person (like the Signal Foundation and by extension the government with a national security letter) knows about your shit-taking, not just family at home or colleagues who happen to be there. This would be a concern for me.
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 year ago
Yeah, I get it, but there’s just no way at all to ensure 100% total anonymity like you’re talking about, while also using a 3rd party carriage service of some sort (eg. mobile network; internet, etc).
We should go back to carrier pigeons with encrypted notes. That way, the sender and recipient “metadata” is only known to themselves (and the pigeons).
jack@monero.town 1 year ago
That’s why I’m using SimpleX Chat, there is no network-wide identity so no data can be collected. It’s a very clever architecture, actually exactly the carrier pidgeon scenario you describe, but in digital form. I’ve found my solution. simplex.chat
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 year ago
Reading the SimpleX overview, it seems the only way the carrier pigeon analogy is truly satisfied with is with a private server, correct?