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It might be very convenient to use financial institution, governament websites, medical records, online shopping, etc… All of that might work like a breeze with this strategy. Specially, since they already know who you are and you still keep trying to hide it.

I really don’t see the point on all of this hyper focus on privacy in some scenarios. Like others mentioned, s...


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Anon46442:

a totally different thing

Depends. In terms of the trust model, those “things” exist at different layers. In terms of outcome of us all getting mass pwned, it is all the same.

Anon46442:

some system library has a backdoor

Not a backdoor, but a vulnerability is enough. From recent past, vulnerabilities in “system library” is mo...


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ignoramous:

Yes; but: Any “entity” between you and the web service reliant on WebPKI could “MitM”. For example, when Lenovo inserted ads into web pages. This is to say, the fragility of WebPKI is not only on entities one has to explicitly trust (CAs / DNS provi...


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not-wittingly:

Oh yeah sorry there are wallets like that I think. I meant that at minimum with any regular wallet though, that is the relationship between it and the remote node.

So most Monero wallets are private, even from the remote node?

not-wittingly:

Regarding the light wallets like MyMonero, I really don’t understand why one would use it. Soun...


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I mean, it’s one thing to do transactions in cash and monero. But you still need to rely on financial institutions for things like investments, savings, and loans.

Unless I suppose someone’s retirement strategy is Monero price appreciation and gold bars under their mattress?

You also basically need a credit card to be a functional member of society these days, a...


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