Re: de-anonymize tor/bitcoin
Jeffrey,
this stuff is a bit heavy but if you care for it here are a couple of =inks:
One obvious technique to de-anonymize tor is to control the 'exit =odes', meaning the nodes that connect Tor to the Internet. If you =ontrol enough of them you can de-anonymize a lot of it.
A friend of mine (among other people), found ways to de-anonymize a =ot of the 'hidden services' (roughly the 'secret' websites inside tor) =uch more efficiently. I believe Tor fixed those flaws by now, but it's = pretty ingenious attack: =ttp://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf The bottom =ine there is that with roughly $11k you can realistically de-anonymize =ny hidden service on tor. You do that by 'pretending' to be one of the =ervers handing out the addresses of the hidden services
The third option is to just attack the machine(s) of the 'bad =uys', this is for instance what the FBI did a while ago against a =etwork oh pedophiles: =ttp://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1jmrta/founder_of_the_freedom_
host=ng_arrested_held/ This option is targeted but it always works.
The trick there was to =ttack the computer and then have the computer
connect to a non-tor =ebsite, by doing that they could get the IP
address and de-anonymize =he user. Of course once you have control
over the machine you can do =uch more that that, but they stucked to
that
As for bitcoin itself, I believe I sent you the Bitodine paper.
=nother very good one is this:
=http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
Now some of these approaches are probabilistic, (3) is not. But I
=uess my point is: if you really want to figure out what somebody is
=oin on tor/bitcoin you can do it given enough resources. Not that it
=atters too much, but well
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hmm yeah, I like it - it's crazy :-) so, why not?
The problem we have is that we need to create an actual physical network =here people on food stamps have some kind of 'debit card' and merchants =ave a special POS to process those transactions (probably something =ike a Square reader will be sufficient). Not sure how big of a deal =hat is in terms of capital, but it's probably the only option unless we =ant to assume people on food stamps have smartphones..
But the good news is that if we do that and we succeed we obtain the =ollowing:
A good enough code base to then to the SWIFT thing + a lot more
A govt stamp of approval in crypto-currency stuff
Once merchants have our POS we can extend the currency to literally =everyone*
Jeffrey, does the govt on our side comes with money attached?
Joi, what do you think?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/22/food-stamp-fraud-rampant-gao-re=ort/ make food stamps a test bed for transparant cyryto? govt on =ur side