Re: Trade-offs Matrix: Solid Term Definition Strategies

Quoting Joshua Cornejo (2025-05-22 15:13:26)
> I didn't mean that I have nothing to hide - I mean that theoretically there is nothing nobody can hide - that's the nature of the internet that needs to rely on a whole bunch of infrastructure providers.
> 
> Information privacy is different from the statement made by Melvin about dereferencing and exposing information by going across a network.

I disagree: There is something that someone can hide - and it seems you
just decide that the something is too little to care about, and you then
dismiss even reflecting on whether that's reasonable.

If you advertise your identifier as something that requires interacting
with EvilCorp services to resolve the identifier, then for me to resolve
your identifier I need to reveal that right now I can be nuked at
$MyCurrentIp whereas if you had advertised a self-contained identifier
I was not required to reveal that personal information in order to use
your shared knowledge.

Sure, I could jump throught hoops to e.g. resolve the information weeks
ago and cache it, and/or resolve it through some distortion field like
a VPN (that I hope is not in the pocket of EvilCorp) or TOR (that I
hope has adequately many onion layers for the potentially very big
EvilCorp to triangulate my position anyway).  But that's an arms race,
the underlying point is still that dereferencing affect privacy.

I do not hold the position that there is a *lot* of privacy to hide,
but a lot of tiny bits leads to valuable assets, as can be seen e.g.
in NSA extreme monitoring and in Google business model.

 - Jonas

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