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Re: COVID-19 contacts tracker (Re: a brief pondering)

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Thu, 16 April 2020 07:18 UTC

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From: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:18:21 -0700
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Subject: Re: COVID-19 contacts tracker (Re: a brief pondering)
To: John Wroclawski <jtw@csail.mit.edu>
Cc: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>, IETF discussion list <ietf@ietf.org>, Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:53 PM John Wroclawski <jtw@csail.mit.edu> wrote:

>
> Precisely for the reason you mention (not a one time thing..) _something_
> is going to happen in near time, and then will very likely get dug in for
> the longer haul. Having a reasonably competent, reasonably
> privacy-preserving protocol/app/whatever _already deployed and running_ is
> one of the better possible defenses ...
>

It's not clear that any of these tracker proposals actually harm privacy.
Certainly the government in most places can get this data from phone
companies and correlate it themselves.

thanks,
Rob

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