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Re: [saag] Liking Linkability

Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG> Thu, 18 October 2012 19:04 UTC

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> [...]
> Unfortunately, I think that's too high of a price to pay for
> unlinkability.
> So I've come to the conclusion that anonymity will depend on
> protocols like TOR specifically designed for it.

Is it my imagination, or is this stuff confusing anonymity with
pseudonymity?  I feel reasonably sure I've missed some of the thread,
but what I have seem does seem to be confusing the two.

This whole thing about linking, for example, seems to be based on
linking identities of some sort, implying that the systems in question
*have* identities, in which case they are (at best) pseudonymous, not
anonymous.

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