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Can a government perform a Sybil attack? #197

Open dbosk opened 4 years ago

dbosk commented 4 years ago

The dependence on unique IDs issued by some government body or, more generically, some central authority that can prevent sybil-type attacks. Basically, the system can not protect against that central authority influencing participation for reasons like a) chilling speech since the national ID in many places is linked to many things necessary for quality of life like credit, housing, banking, and it being linked to protest may well cause harm for the participant and b) the national issuer can just create sybil identities for itself and create counter manifestos and show larger support for their own selves (which is noted in the paper as well).

Should look into the practices in Skatteverket:

And Migrationsverket.