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title: "Chaum's gone senile if he thinks this is going to fly.  The only…"
date: 2016-01-13
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# Chaum's gone senile if he thinks this is going to fly.  The only…

*January 13, 2016 · Facebook*

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[http://www.wired.com/2016/01/david-chaum-father-of-online-anonymity-plan-to-end-the-crypto-wars/](http://www.wired.com/2016/01/david-chaum-father-of-online-anonymity-plan-to-end-the-crypto-wars/){target="_blank"}
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Chaum\'s gone senile if he thinks this is going to fly. The only privacy tools worth a damn are those that protect even terrorists and pedophiles.\
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\"That ambitious privacy toolset aside, Chaum is also building into PrivaTegrity another feature that's sure to be far more controversial: a carefully controlled backdoor that allows anyone doing something "generally recognized as evil" to have their anonymity and privacy stripped altogether.\
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Whoever controls that backdoor within PrivaTegrity would have the power to decide who counts as "evil"---too much power, Chaum recognizes, for any single company or government. So he's given the task to a sort of council system. When PrivaTegrity's setup is complete, nine server administrators in nine different countries would all need to cooperate to trace criminals within the network and decrypt their communications. The result, Chaum argues, is a new approach that "breaks the crypto wars," satisfying both the law enforcement agencies who argue that encryption offers a haven for criminals, and also those who argue that it's necessary to hobble mass spying.\"\
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[http://www.wired.com/2016/01/david-chaum-father-of-online-anonymity-plan-to-end-the-crypto-wars/](http://www.wired.com/2016/01/david-chaum-father-of-online-anonymity-plan-to-end-the-crypto-wars/){target="_blank"}
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