Re:Umbra Privacy Platform
by gragas on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @10:57AM
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It's probably just me, but this all seems hilariously similar to the "shadow" metaphor that Comey (FBI Director) mentioned in his speech the other day. I half-jokingly think this is just an FBI front.
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Fully not jokingly, I think governments love BTC and other pseudo-anonymous blockchain tech in particular. It's a permanent, irrefutable record linking transactions. Even if your name's not on it, without extreme heroics, you name will be traceable to the cash end or the service end at some point. This is way better than cash.
Fully anonymous blockchain tech probably scares them.
Umbra, shadow, IMHO that sort of names don't have a very positive connotation for the general public. How about calling the next one Lux, light or something like that? Maybe not priming people with the idea that those tools will be used only for shadowy business can help their success.
Almost certainly a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penumbra_(law)
This is probably the single most significant concept for legal privacy rights in the US.