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Pork messages provide the air cover and not to reveal its identity


Collective polytheism messages between news agencies and readers can help protect the identity of those informed of violations, according to Dr. Mane Ahmed, founder of Coverdrop, a tool for protecting those informed of violations, and OpenONORIGINS, Blockchain that provides proof of data and videos to ensure the original. Both tools work to ensure reliable communications.

In an interview with Cointelegraph, Dr. Ahmed said that Coverdrop works by sending large quantities of trap Encrypted messages Traffic between readers of the news platform and the same news platform.

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The correspondence from the reader to the journalists. source: Coverdrop White Paper

This creates the illusion that every reader is the amount of violations, and thus drown the identity of any real violations in a sea of ​​digital noise. The Executive Authority clarified the problem of those whose violations are currently facing in the era of digital monitoring:

“Violations are in a difficult situation because, by virtue of their definition, part of a small group can access the distinctive information. Therefore, even if they use the encryption from one side to the party, the fact that they have a communication with a journalist is sufficient to prepare it.

It does not matter that they cannot see the contents of the message; Just enough individual relationship, “Dr. Ahmed continued.

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Coverrop protocol flow. source: Coverdrop White Paper

The founder of Coverdrop and OpenONORIGINS warned that progress in the tools of artificial intelligence and data monitoring only Increase the threat of privacy And not to be identified over time, which creates a need for more powerful defenses against the emerging Panopticon in the event of security monitoring.

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Agency AI and the loss of anonymity in the crowd

Dr. Ahmed noticed that bloc Data collection by governments Intelligence agencies have been going on for more than a decade, but they were not very effective because there was no effective way to liquidate through the large quantities of the collected data.

“They needed to hire thousands of analysts to sit and actually target people, with artificial intelligence you do not need to do so anymore,” said CointeleGRAPH.