Silk Road forums
Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: awhiteknight on August 26, 2013, 12:46 am
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Since the upgrades the site has started leaking new information, at the moment customers are uniquely identifiable across accounts by dealers. It's therefore quite possible for someone to know your address and your entire transaction history, assuming you always leave a review.
Something like the following hashes into a unique identifier with very little chance of collision:
spent £7,268.90
orders 54
vendors 39
user age 8m 6d
I suggest moving to something with lots of collisions, increasing anonymity for everyone who falls into a given hash bucket:
spent £5,000-10,000
orders 50-100
vendors 25-50
user age 6-12 months
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Yep, privacy wise this 'upgrade' is a disaster.
It might turn away privacy conscious users from posting a comment on what they bought...
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The buyers guide has to be re-written now.. just two words needed 'fuck you'