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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 week ago by compostgoblin@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Monero has view keys for exactly this reason, so that if you need to make a transaction public for like an audit or something, you can do so. But on the protocol level, absolutely everything is always private.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

That’s good too. Not a Monero hater or a Zcash fanboy—I just think we need to be honest about the capabilities even if the methods of getting there are different.