From: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil•org>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>,
Paul Puey <paul@airbitz•co>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal for P2P Wireless (Bluetooth LE) transfer of Payment URI
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 12:59:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D3D9C4.9090400@voskuil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP3ekWQWeV=Yw_E=n0grORBLHaXLUh3w0EFQdz=HsjWvZw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/05/2015 12:50 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> I'm imagining myself walking around broadcasting my photo and MAC
> address while hucksters push payment requests to me for approval
>
> I hate to break it to you, but you broadcast a photo of your face every
> time you walk outside ;)
>
> Bluetooth MAC addresses are random, they aren't useful identifiers. If
> someone can see you, a face is a far more uniquely identifying thing
> than a MAC.
Interesting take on privacy. But the market will of course decide.
Would the merchant be broadcasting payment requests in the clear, or
would they be encrypted with a public key of the spender?
> "Payment spam" might be a problem. I can imagine a wallet requiring that
> such requests are signed and then spammers can be blacklisted in the
> usual fashion so they can't push things to your phone anymore. Anyway, a
> hurdle that can be jumped if/when it becomes an issue.
Not sure I'd shoot for a system that's guaranteed to require PKI with
blacklisting and spam filtering.
e
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-05 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-05 20:06 Paul Puey
2015-02-05 20:28 ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-05 20:37 ` Paul Puey
2015-02-05 20:43 ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-05 20:44 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-05 20:50 ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-05 20:59 ` Eric Voskuil [this message]
2015-02-05 21:19 ` Brian Hoffman
2015-02-05 21:23 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-05 21:36 ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-05 21:46 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-05 22:07 ` Paul Puey
2015-02-05 22:10 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-05 22:49 ` Roy Badami
2015-02-05 23:22 ` MⒶrtin HⒶboⓋštiak
2015-02-05 23:02 ` William Swanson
2015-02-05 23:34 ` Roy Badami
2015-02-05 23:59 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06 8:59 ` Roy Badami
2015-02-06 9:13 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06 0:58 ` Paul Puey
2015-02-05 23:22 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-05 23:36 ` MⒶrtin HⒶboⓋštiak
2015-02-05 23:46 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06 0:04 ` MⒶrtin HⒶboⓋštiak
2015-02-06 0:22 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06 0:36 ` Martin Habovštiak
2015-02-06 1:29 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06 9:07 ` MⒶrtin HⒶboⓋštiak
2015-02-10 16:55 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-10 17:16 ` MⒶrtin HⒶboⓋštiak
2015-02-10 17:56 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06 0:49 ` Paul Puey
2015-02-06 0:50 ` Martin Habovštiak
2015-02-06 1:05 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06 2:09 ` Paul Puey
2015-02-05 22:02 ` Paul Puey
2015-02-05 22:01 ` Paul Puey
2015-02-05 22:05 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-05 22:08 ` Paul Puey
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2015-02-05 8:01 Paul Puey
2015-02-05 13:46 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-05 13:57 ` Mike Hearn
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