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On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Shawn Long <shawn@???> wrote:

> I lo0ve your guys cause but can you please take me off the mailing list,
> i ve tried to unsubscribe several times to no success
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> On 5/5/2014 9:48 AM, Jim Bursch wrote:
>
> I'm working on an online identity/profile service called NameClaim -- a
> registry of names backed by bitcoin -- and as I was writing the privacy
> statement, it struck me that this is use case for darkwallet. Here's the
> privacy statement:
>
> http://nameclaim.name/index.php?view=privacy
>
> Privacy policies are promises that cannot be enforced. This is not a
> privacy policy. You are responsible for protecting your own privacy, and we
> are glad to help you do so. This is a statement of principles.
>
> For the purpose of discussing privacy, there are three things:
>
>    1. You
>    2. Data-About-You
>    3. Everyone else, including their machines

>
> You and Data-About-You are two seperate things. You are not your name or
> any other data, and that is true of every living human being.
>
> As much as you would like to, you cannot control Data-About-You that is
> not in your physical possession. As soon as data passes from you to someone
> or something else, you have lost control of it.
>
> Data-About-You is worthless if only you possess it (it may be important to
> you, but it is worthless). Data-About-You is only valuable when others are
> in possession of it.
>
> When the link between You and Data-About-You is broken, the data becomes
> worthless.
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> How can you realize the full value of Data-About-You if you lose control
> of it the moment that you share it, which you have to do for it to have any
> value at all?
>
> The answer is plausible deniability, which is your ability to render the
> data worthless by denying its relationship to you.
>
> Your name claim is your proxy identity, and you animate it with data and
> the backing of your bitcoin. Through the NameClaim API, others can relate
> to your proxy, and as long as you are animating your proxy, they are
> relating to you, and the data is valuable. Your privacy can never be
> violated as long as you have the ability to deny your association with the
> proxy. Or, to put it another way, if you claim your privacy has been
> violated, it is only because you are choosing to maintain your association
> with data that is not in your control.
>
> When you stake a name claim and attach data to that name, you are making a
> claim that the data represents you, and the strength of your claim is
> determined by the amount of bitcoin that you set aside to back that claim.
> The digital signature from that bitcoin address is what links you to the
> name claim and attached data.
>
> You can also abandon the name claim and deny the relationship between you
> and the data, thus rendering the data worthless. However, in order to
> maintain plausible deniability, you have to make sure that you cannot be
> linked to that bitcoin address by any other means. The extent to which you
> can deny ownership of the bitcoin address is the extent to which you can
> protect your privacy.
>
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