Anonymity has costs, so if your preferred version of privacy is "no one can tie...

@mistersql

Anonymity has costs, so if your preferred version of privacy is "no one can tie me to my real world persona" then you have a much, much, much harder job of creating a system of trust that doesn't appeal to real world institutions. For example, I want to maintain my privacy and participate in OSS financial software. It should be much, much harder for me to convince people to become a core contributor.

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Paraphrasing my boss when I found a security problem in our code, he said security is being able to send the person recording fraudulent transactions to jail.

And xz can't do that because they relied on a 100% privacy model of reputation. They can only block, nothing with real world consequences.