Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia

[David Benfell <benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:36:04 -0400, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> 
> That seems to me to be no major problem.  A digitally signed token from
> Tor which says, in effect, "No guarantees, but this user is Alice has
> been around for a few months, and hasn't caused any trouble, so we
> figure they are more or less ok" would be fine.  And if that user causes
> us grief, then we just say "Sorry, Alice, even though Tor thinks you're
> ok, we're blocking you anyway."
> 
> Or the signed token could say "Here's a random user, a new account, we
> don't know anything about him, his name is Bob" -- and we can choose to
> block it or accept it, based on empirical evidence.
> 
And how is *this* anonymous?

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