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Best tips and OPSEC awareness for SN use?

174 sats \ 11 comments \ @Bitman 2 Jul 2023 meta

I've seen one or two conversations on SN recently, largely from the same individuals, where the question of anonymity has been raised around the polls.

I'd imagine that any slips of privacy would be down to users accidentally d0xing themselves and that any data from polls are collected anonymously.

To allay any fears, clear the air and share users tips and stories could we start a general discussion on best practises, OPSEC awareness and the anonymizing of user data.

Please feel free to jump in @k00b et al. to give SN's viewpoint.

Thanks in advance 🧡

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12 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 2 Jul 2023

To show you which poll choice you made and prevent you from voting in a poll more than once and show you where you spend money, we store it. We could explore some kind of more anonymous poll but just thinking through some alternatives, the more private they become in an absolute sense (ie no one knows how you answered but you), the worse the ux gets.

98 sats \ 4 replies \ @benthecarman 2 Jul 2023

you could store which you voted for in local storage or indexed db, that way you should have similar UX in most cases without compromising privacy

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 2 Jul 2023

I agree but is that private enough? It only really makes it slightly harder to break privacy. If few people vote in the poll or everyone votes for a similar choice, or the payment timing matches the poll value changing, it’s not much more private actually.

It’d require anonymizing payment data too I think which would lead to dangling payments in your wallet history.

I’m probably overthinking it. Maybe privacy should be iterated on like other things.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bitman OP 2 Jul 2023

To my poorly-educated ears it sounds like a decent idea - maybe @k00b could also comment on this.

I'm hoping that if 'which way you voted' was held locally it wouldn't need having 'whether you voted' on local storage too (so that polls aren't compromised). Sorry if it's a silly question.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @03365d6a53 2 Jul 2023

local storage of vote results wouldn't work for those using multiple browsers, or devices

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman OP 2 Jul 2023

Ah, that's right.

75 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman OP 2 Jul 2023

Thanks for coming back to me @k00b.

I hope it goes a little way in soothing any fears of the individuals in question.

👍

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @mo 2 Jul 2023

Let them show off if they need to

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman OP 2 Jul 2023

Perhaps the intention of my post has been lost in a rewrite - I read a few replies in posts with polls from some users and wanted their concerns to be addressed in the light of day.