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RE: Who is This @highasfuck Bot and Why Does it Go Flagging Posts For No Reason?
There still needs to be some kind of measure against spam etc., I have expressed my concerns already about the possibility of somebody with more resources and power that can start abusing the system and this is apparently already happening. We need a solution that will solve the problem and not counteract it in a way that is not so good...
If you have a good grasp on the way distributed and cryptographic systems work, you would understand that they are more real-life-relevant and realistic in the way they work. More specifically, political power does not function in the cryptosphere. As many people point out, if you send out an encrypted signal, others can then apply cryptanalytic mechanisms and maybe they can yank your secret out of it and compromise the rest of your communication. This is a very different model to trusted third parties holding custody of your communications. It is much harder to break those systems, except if you can get control of the trusted third party's system, you can 0wn so much.
So it's an exploratory process that we are seeing unfold, and the stakes are very high. Finding the right answer, and quickly, is critical. I think it is a fantastic process for especially the kind of people who are attracted to a system like this. We all want to have a collection of proven best practises for cryptographic security, and here we can see it play out, right in front of our eyes.