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The Key Difference Between Privacy and Anonymity

The core issue that I think most people have a signal is it does not provide anonymity between you and the people that you're messaging. So if you have visibility of the connections graph even if the peer identifiers are completely random numbers there will be a lot of correlation and activity in a sedunumous network. There is some anecdotal statistics that some telephone operator shared that it usually takes five phone calls on average on a burner phone to identify a person. We want to debate the fault so effectively we can talk a little bit about protocol design but the fundamental it have a network design when peers in a network simply do not have network wide identities of any client because this default allows to build much more diverse

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