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Researchers Discover Flaws in Digital Currency Monero That Could Reveal Identity of Users (wired.com)
Researchers have discovered flaws in Monero, a digital currency that boasts a high degree of anonymity, that could lead to the identification of users. From a report: Monero is designed to mix up any given Monero "coin" with other payments, so that anyone scouring Monero's blockchain can't link it to any particular identity or previous transaction from the same source. But in a recent paper, a team of researchers from a broad collection of institutions -- including Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Boston University, MIT, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- point to flaws in that mixing that make it possible to nonetheless extract individual transactions.
That shouldn't just worry anyone trying to stealthily spend Monero today. It also means evidence of earlier not-quite-untraceable payments remain carved into Monero's blockchain for years to come, visible for any snoop that cares to look.
That shouldn't just worry anyone trying to stealthily spend Monero today. It also means evidence of earlier not-quite-untraceable payments remain carved into Monero's blockchain for years to come, visible for any snoop that cares to look.
Franklin, not Teddy. And Roosevelt might well have been more interested in protecting depositors than in protecting banks.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
Anyone who's surprised by this isn't suspicious enough of the idea that a currency built on a permanent public ledger of transactions could possibly be anonymous.
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