[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox and Bitcoin (and the petition)

[Daniel Pocock]

On 12/11/12 19:43, Ted Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 10:28 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> With very little work (running Tor and using new addresses), you can
> anonymize your Bitcoin participation to the same extent you could
> anything.
> 
> Further, is the FBX going to tunnel all traffic through some TCP
> mix-net? (I don't think it is.) All privacy is quantitative; there is no
> concept of perfect anonymity. Nothing provides 100% privacy, and the FBX
> isn't looking to do that anyway.

That's actually why I bring the question to this list

In general, what is the threshold for acceptable privacy and anonymity
on FreedomBox?

Does it vary from one protocol to the next?  E.g. I understand that some
things go over Tor, but that it is not practical to stream media over
Tor, so a video calling session might go box-to-box (so it is encrypted,
but an observer would still know the two boxes were communicating)

Or could privacy tolerance be user-controlled?  The user could then
select low, medium or high privacy expectations.  If the user sets
`high', then maybe Bitcoin is disabled.

Or maybe adding Bitcoin to FreedomBox means not just installing the
package, but adding some utility to automatically generate new keys
every day, or some other tweak to make it a little bit more private
without the user having to actively remember such details.