[ExI] Untraceable nastiness

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
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> Ubiquitous surveillance likely makes on-line anonymity impossible, since the
> gnatbots can read your passwords as you type them (or more sophisticated
> evil maid surveillance attacks on your hardware).

### You are right that sufficiently intensive surveillance of the
physical layer eliminates online anonymity, since the online world is
a subset of the physical. Still, there is a difference between
surveillance just sufficient to detect large-scale human action, such
as driving over and stabbing somebody, versus the much more detailed
surveillance needed to intercept e.g. EEG-mediated payment orders
through online anonymizers. The former is almost there, the latter
may, or may not come.

Rafal