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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by Reelin on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:45AM (#23210417)
What complex social problem? All I see are a few technical problems regarding security, anonymity, and interrelations between nodes on a graph. There's also a closely related ease of use (ie UX) problem regarding the convenience (or rather lack thereof) of publishing things in a reasonably anonymous manner.

All the social problems, such as the underlying reasons for wanting or needing anonymity in the first place, remain.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by pferde on Sunday May 17, 2020 @06:43AM (#23211074)
It is a social problem because even the strongest, most bullet-proof cryptography solution can't prevent people slipping up and making mistakes, which a motivated attacker can then use to de-anonymize and connect their various identities together.

And people will slip up and make mistakes. A lot.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by Reelin on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:16PM (#23214489)
I agree that the potential for making mistakes could contribute to a social problem, but it's one that already exists. I also wasn't proposing to solve it - hence my earlier response.
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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by tonyarkles on Sunday May 17, 2020 @11:59AM (#23212830)
“Authorship Attribution” is an active field of research. Even if you manage to solve the problem of anonymously publishing a bunch of content under distinct anonymous pseudonyms (or completely anonymously), there’s a non-negligible probability that, as soon as the author of one work is identified, the entire body of work can be attributed to that person.
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