On 08/14/2018 04:48 PM, panoramix.druida wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> El 14 de agosto de 2018 8:17 PM, Mirimir <miri...@riseup.net> escribió:
> 
>> On 08/13/2018 07:52 PM, panoramix.druida wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, is there a way to measure the level of anonymity on a system?
>>
>> Sure. There's some literature. Check out
>> https://www.freehaven.net/papers.html.
> 
> Thanks, lots of good stuff!!!

Yeah, it's a _great_ resource.

>>> Ricochet is way better to protect anonymity. I don’t need a phone number, 
>>> not even a name, I just use the onion service hostname. With Richochet I am 
>>> anonymous all the time unless I identify myself.
>>> Email may not be as good as Signal for end to end encryption (even with 
>>> pgp), but it can be way better for anonymity. For instance, this email 
>>> account was created using Tor in Protonmail, and there are other mail 
>>> providers that allow me to this. If I always use Protonmail with Tor, it is 
>>> very hard for Protonmail to learn who am I and where I live, doing that 
>>> with Signal is harder. However with Ricochet is way easier.
>>
>> Well, there's a huge metadata issue with email. Using .onion webmail
>> mitigates much of it. But everyone needs to watch their OPSEC, to avoid
>> deanonymization.
>>
>> And why do you say that deanonymization is way easier with Ricochet?
>> It's all via .onion instances. But I gather that Tor Project no longer
>> actively supports the work.
> 
> What I meant is that is easier to stay anonyumouse on a system like Ricochet.

OK, got it.
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