On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 12:13:39PM -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: > That changed balance doesn't come with a morality bit: If we let > people be anonymous, some of them will do bad things, others will do > great things. Totally anonymous (one-time nym) has zero prestige by definition, this is readily normalized into negative range by relative comparison to prestige of more persistent nyms (as most anonymous parties are jerks). If the infrastructure tracks the mana trail in a distributed, tamper proof, unfloodable fashion the sufficiently motivated target can make an informed decision on which prestige cutoff he will allow interactions, and which will be denied. Wikipedia uses IP addresses for prestige tracking as there is no further identification accessible to them. Known Tor egress IPs have become tainted with negative mana by abuse. Probability of defacement coming from non-Tor address space is sufficiently lower for them to go the easy route to blacklist Tor. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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