Re: [Help-gnunet] Measures Against Abuse not a topic of FAQ

[Christian Grothoff]

Dear Jan,

The kinds of abuse you are concerned about seem to all be of a
commercial nature, and thus have less to do with the P2P overlay
network, but with the payment system.  After all, who'd pay for those
kinds of services on Silk Road with their credit card?

For GNUnet, the payment system we want to see is GNU Taler
(https://taler.net/), which offers one-sided anonymity: the buyer is
anonymous, but the seller is not.  As the state can easily identify the
merchants and perform an audit to obtain the (digitally signed) contract
between merchant and customer, the Taler payment system should not work
for sustained illegal activities.

I should point out that there are other forms of abuse that I am
concerned about and for which we have some plans (see in particular
https://gnunet.org/p4t).


Happy hacking,

Christian


On 09/22/2016 08:10 PM, Jan Eichstaedt wrote:
> Hello GNUnet Project:
> 
> On the one hand I find your project admirable and would like to help. On
> the other hand I wonder whether you have any measures in place to
> safeguard against abuse of GNUnet. This keeps me from actually helping
> GNUnet. Your philosophy (https://gnunet.org/philosophy) appears to me as
> if you are not inclined to do anything about abuse.
> 
> What prevents GNUnet from turning into the next Silk Road (selling
> drugs, weapons, murderers via Tor)?
> 
> Is this worth a discussion from your point of view? If so then you have
> had this discussion long ago, I suppose. Could you please point me to
> information about this?
> 
> 
> Best,
> Jan
> 
> 
> 
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