2-1aa Privacy is the absence of information leakage

“The only true secret is the one you take to the grave”

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees” – Benjamin Franklin

“A small leak will sink a great ship” – Benjamin Franklin

Zooko: Anonymity → No violence/coercionrevisit
Remember Polyphemus and Odysseus

Related:

• 1-1c6a1c The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absencedevelop
  • Viz., indistinguishable nobody ≠ unidentifiable nobody
• 2-1a Information is in the difference. No difference, no information. 情報とは差異. 区別のないところに情報は生まれない.
  • With zero-knowledge proofs, adversarial quantum attacker wouldn’t know where to start the attack
• 3-1c1b You are what you think and you think what you see, and you see what you think
  • Privacy-tech (which include digital cash proper) implication is no targeted adsrevisit
    • Relate with this note which mentions mind-shareTODO
    • This might be unpopular view, but I think in following the Iron Law of Civilization 3.0 (see Li Lu), and thinking about what constitutes a brand (see Warren Buffett), brand is necessarily about capturing the mind-share of customers (both current and potential). We don’t decide everything consciously—in most cases, cultures nurture minds, and they’re in general efficient (see Daniel Everett and Scott Aaronson). In short, I think we will need targeted ads.
      • Also, an ad cannot capture the whole mind, but only a part of it.revisit
• 5-2a2 What gets measured gets managed
  • It’s as if the multiverse, via quantum computation, would force us to choose between panopticon (BTC) or privacy (ZEC)
• 9-4b3b1 Popper - ‘We let our ideas die in our place’ (another difference between memes vs genes)
  • To have privacy is to be dissociated—that is, to be symbolicrevisit
    • <> 2-1a6b ‘Pavlovian association’ & ‘Social proof’ - Understand the arbitrary association formed within your culture. There are no pure indexes for humans.
    • <> Costly speech means only the wealthy speak freely
• 12-1a2a1 Free markets and free speech, by definition, transcend the concepts of nation-states
• Going public is one-way doorrevisit
  • 5-3c Knowledge is irreversible, and can only go from private to public
• Privacy is optional with zcash—this allows its user to tap into his brand
  • 7-1b4b4c Public Networked Learner must use composability with ownership and compounding to its advantagedevelop