A war between privacy and surveillance; centralized databases always leak
Akash Weekly - November 30th 2022 (Akash Network)
“There is a war that’s more apparent now between the advocates of privacy and the advocates of surveillance… The fact that there is a database somewhere sitting that has your IP addresses and your transaction history is fundamentally dangerous, because this database is never secure… Last thing I want is my information with my public IP address, with all the transaction history associated, by name… on the dark web — and we know that’s going to happen.” — 00:02:50
Context: Reacting to ConsenSys’s privacy policy allowing IP/transaction logging; his argument that protocols must be built so they “cannot collect information” rather than promise not to.