Administrivia: the porn and advertising thread

[Ben Laurie]

Richard Clayton wrote:
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> In article <02042717313302.18465@comuno>, phil hunt
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> >Two questions I'd be interested in people's views on:
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> >(1) if everyone starts using crypto, will it be possible to effectively
> >limit the availability of any type of matter (such as child porn, or
> >for that matter unauthorised copies of music) over the net?
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> yes ... the property that would give a problem would be anonymity. It
> doesn't really matter how much crypto there is if the source of the
> material can be traced.

There are certainly schemes that give a pretty good assurance of
anonymity, though (and they obviously have to use crypto). The best one
that I can think of is onion routing - so far no-one seems to care
enough to make it work in practice, though.

> >(2) if the answer to the first question is "no", will the authorities
> >eventually stop trying?
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> no ... because they would sometimes catch people - achieving perfect
> anonymity is rather hard to do.

Agreed.

Cheers,

Ben.

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