| > So this is not anonymous reddit, then. That is much less useful, and it had better be extremely clear to users that they should only use it in that way. Depends on how you emphasize that sentence. It's reddit, but its anonymity is weaker on certain fronts and stronger on others. If used as one-shot device, it's pretty good. Otherwise, there are the issues you mentioned (which I plan to fix, to my best). > So to actually be undetectable as using Aether, you can't accept connections. Then you have to hope that enough users are connecting for the anonymity and not the undetectability, or you'll have to provide some infrastructure nodes. Correct. > Great, if you promise undetectability, then this should be the default. I do not promise undetectability, but it exists under certain circumstances. I will explicitly note those circumstances and mark undetectability as a side benefit only under those conditions. > I don't understand the distinction being made here. In any case, the upvote is observed as coming directly from some IP. That is the identifier to worry about. The distinction is largely academic as you said. If you have a cryptographic solution to that, I'd love if you could point me to the right direction. > And why can't I create a network of Sybils to upvote my spam posts? You can, but users can also block your nodes, or (we're really going into the medium-term future here) your nodes would be placed in blocklists, whose users—people who accepted them— would deny you from connecting to them. (This is a half–baked idea as of now, who maintains those lists etc.) This is a thorny problem. Spam filters, I was meaning less of an actual after-the-fact spam filter, and more of a "block this guy out, refuse connections" kind of filter. Sorry for the wrong choice of words. All in all, very fair points I need to work on. If you would be interested in taking a look once in a while to point out where the logic holes are, I'd really appreciate your voice in development. If you'd be interested in helping out, send a mail to me (burak@nehbit.net)— I would try to run more important things by you before implementing to see if there are any obvious holes. |