<story><title>The Offshore Networks of Oligarchs</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad051/7059318</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>berjin</author><text>Every time I have to fill in some AML (anti-money laundering) form I think how much of a waste of time and money it is for every party involved since the real big fish are getting around it with professional help. It&amp;#x27;s all very kafkaesque and invasive so I come to the conclusion it&amp;#x27;s more about powerful governments existing to gain more power than it is about solving any injustice.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Offshore Networks of Oligarchs</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad051/7059318</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leashless</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re looking for the &amp;quot;Goldilocks Zone&amp;quot; of privacy. We want:&lt;p&gt;* Enough privacy that activists don&amp;#x27;t wind up facing death squads
* Not so much privacy that drug cartels wind up running the country.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that cryptography is all or nothing: for a given observer, the transaction is either private or it isn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m fascinated by models like differential privacy. Maybe there are ways of making systems which snare large scale abuses but &lt;i&gt;provably&lt;/i&gt; leave the minnows free.</text></comment>