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[Marc Abel]

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On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 07:15, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> David Benfell wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Because they come to you anonymously.  You can't figure out who they
> really are in the real world.  All you know is that they are the same
> person as before.
> 
> --Jimbo

This has law enforcement implications; if you can prove that Alice took
the cookie from the cookie jar, perhaps using eyewitnesses, you can now
show that Alice did many other unreputable things.

Marc