Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day agoIt depends on the details of the non-profit. In the circumstances I see, you’re not required to make it public, but you ARE required to provide the list to the government.
I can say, If you started a non-profit and used it to track ice, they most certainly would obtain a list of your doners if they had to go and take it from the hands of your payment provider. Even most crypto isn’t fully safe because of banking reporting required
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s a good point, they’d definitely just subpoena your bank records. If crypto is used properly, it can be nigh impossible to trace, though. Bitcoin isn’t very private at all on the blockchain, but if you send over lightning network, my understanding is that it becomes effectively impossible to track, unless your adversary controls enough lightning network nodes to track the payment as it bounces between nodes. They wouldn’t need to control the whole path, but they would need to control nodes VERY close to origin and destination, ideally the adjacent nodes, and enough of those in the middle to be reasonably sure they can accurately follow the money. The lightning network doesn’t leave a detailed ledger behind, so only way to trace a payment is to be involved in its processing, which means controlling the nodes the money passes through on its way to the recipient.
Of course, that’s way too obscure and unknown for the vast majority of people, so I don’t see a nonprofit succeeding that way these days. Maybe if crypto actually does get mainstream, but that’s still a pretty big if.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Heh onion routing for bitcoin payments, that’s pretty neat. The receiver ends up hanging a bit in the wind.
Maybe it could be a steam game or something with pausible deniablilty
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Actually, the way the payments are structured, no money moves AT ALL if ANYONE in the chain tries to back out. It maintains the trustless nature of crypto. I don’t recall the specifics of how it’s done, though.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
No, hanging in the wind as being the receiver. Kinda like tor exit nodes can’t hide. Unlike tor exit nodes (well for the time being) you can get hit for recieving the money and paying for something deemed illegal wiht it.
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Noem is so dumb she could not figure out how to train a dog and she felt her best idea was to shoot it in the head. These are not smart people.