Co -founder Ethereum Vitalik Buterin believes that privacy should be the highest priority for programmers, warning that the assumptions regarding transparency and good intentions in global policy are too confident.

In the post on the blog of April 14, memory he argued This privacy is necessary to maintain individual freedom and protect against the growing strength of governments and corporations. He criticized the idea that increased transparency is beneficial, saying that he was based on the assumptions about human nature, which are no longer critical.

These assumptions include the belief that global political leadership is “generally good intentions and reasonable”, and social culture is developing in a positive direction. “They both turn out to be more and more false, argued Barein.

Buterin claimed that “there is no one main country for which the first assumption is generally agreed to be true.” In addition, he wrote that cultural tolerance “will go back quickly”, which is reportedly shown by X Post search Because “intimidation is good.”

Problems of privacy of battery memory

Buterin said he sometimes recognized the lack of privacy disturbing. He added:

“Every action that I perform outside has a non -errors that unexpectedly becomes a public media history.”

Although this may seem like a suggestion that privacy is an advantage only for those who venture outside social norms, he emphasized that “you never know when you become one of them.”

Buterin only expects the need to increase privacy as technology develops, and brain computer interfaces potentially allow automated systems to fall into our brains directly. Another problem is automated price groove, and companies are burdened with people as much as they expect that they will be able to pay.

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There is no privacy in the case of government backdors

Buterin also definitely argued against the idea of ​​adding government ribbons to systems designed to protect privacy. He said that such positions are common, but unstable by nature.

He emphasized how to learn about the customer’s data: “This is not only a government, but also all kinds of corporate entities with different quality levels” that can access private data. Instead, the information is supported and owned by payment processors, banks and other intermediaries.

Similarly, telecommunications companies can locate their users and it was found that they are not illegally sell this data. The bar also aroused fears that people with access will always be encouraged to abuse, and data banks can always be hated. Finally, a trustworthy government can change and become unbelievable in the future, inheriting all confidential data. Came to the conclusion:

“From the perspective of the individual, if the data is downloaded with it, they are not able to determine whether and how they are abused in the future. Definitely the safest approach to gigantic -scale data is to collect them as little as possible.”

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Authorities have more data than ever

Barein raised the issue of governments that can access everything with an order “because things have always worked in this way.” He noticed that this point of view does not include it historically, the amount of data available to obtain an order was much lower.

He said that traditionally available data would still be available, even “if the strongest proposed forms of privacy on the Internet were widely accepted”. He wrote that “in the nineteenth century the average conversation took place once, through the voice, and was never recorded by anyone.”

Proposed Buterina solutions

Bareinin suggested solutions based mainly on zero knowledge evidence (ZK-resistant), because they allow “fine-grained control, who can see what information”. ZK-resistant are cryptographic protocols that allow one of the parties to prove that the statement is true without disclosure of additional information.

One of such systems is the ID card based on ZK, which proves that you are unique without revealing who you are. These systems are based on documents such as passports or biometric data in combination with decentralized systems.

Another suggested solution are the recently launched privacy pools, which allow anonymization of the ether in accordance with the regulation (ETH). Bemein also cited the device scanning, checking incoming messages and identifying potential disinformation and fraud.

These systems are proof of provenance services for physical subjects using a combination of blockchain and zk-resistant technology. They follow the different properties of the item throughout the entire production cycle, providing the user of its authenticity.

The post is the latest Buterina privacy map for Ethereum. In it he emphasized short -term changes in the basic protocol and the ecosystem needed to ensure better privacy of users.

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