Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog)
([Security] Oct 20, 2020 14:12 UTC (Tue) (corbet))
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[1]This Matrix blog entry describes a planned reputation-management system that, it is claimed, accomplishes some of the same goals as government backdoors without the need to compromise end-to-end encryption. " Just like the Web, Email or the Internet as a whole, there is literally no way to unilaterally censor or block content in Matrix. But what we can do is provide first-class infrastructure to let users (and room/community moderators and server admins) make up their own mind about who to trust, and what content to allow. This would also provide a means for authorities to publish reputation data about illegal content, providing a privacy-respecting mechanism that admins/mods/users can use to keep illegal content away from their servers/clients. "
[1] https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors
[1] https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors
Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog)
Yes, because reputation-based mechanisms are never chronically and severely abused, right?
Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog)
Yes, because reputation-based mechanisms are never chronically and severely abused, right?
Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog)
Well, at least if you have multiple reputation sources, any abuser would need to find a way to abuse *all of them at once*. This seems likely to get increasingly difficult the more of them there are.
Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog)
Well, at least if you have multiple reputation sources, any abuser would need to find a way to abuse *all of them at once*. This seems likely to get increasingly difficult the more of them there are.
Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog)
But the more you have the harder it is to know which ones to trust. Basically how do you know if "TheTruther" or "TheRealTruther" or "TheGuarenteedTruther". It is a low cost method to do deep cons to just set up lots of "reputation" sources and then "mark" each one with high reputations by sock puppets and some 'real' accounts. I expect that the business plans are already in place and by March you will be able to by 1000's of reputation points from various companies for your accounts.
Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog)
But the more you have the harder it is to know which ones to trust. Basically how do you know if "TheTruther" or "TheRealTruther" or "TheGuarenteedTruther". It is a low cost method to do deep cons to just set up lots of "reputation" sources and then "mark" each one with high reputations by sock puppets and some 'real' accounts. I expect that the business plans are already in place and by March you will be able to by 1000's of reputation points from various companies for your accounts.