Quote from: Anon136 on September 17, 2016, 12:19:16 PM

Quote from: Carlton Banks on September 17, 2016, 11:18:45 AM

Won't give up your keys? "Thought crime" will put a stop to that. These "just-following-orders" types need to actually realise that everyday people can secure their own rights, that rights are not always something that someone bigger and stronger allows you to do.

This is just a variant of the $5 wrench attack. You could selectively reveal some identities but not others. Thats the nice thing about the bip32 tree structure. You have no way of knowing whether or not a given node is at the top of the tree or not.

Yes and no. The motive for the $5-wrench attack is easily identified by a wide range of different types of people. It's theft/extortion, and that is universally condemned.

But for "thought crime" and "pre-crime", there is a large amount of propaganda and psychological game playing involved. That makes identifying the real motive much more difficult (still theft) for regular and below-average intelligence individuals. And that makes it more dangerous, as a culture of accepting the "science" behind it is easy to promote with "you don't understand our pre-crime statistical techniques, therefore do as I say".

Quote from: Anon136 on September 17, 2016, 12:19:16 PM

Quote from: Carlton Banks on September 17, 2016, 11:18:45 AM

What makes you think Andreas makes a living doing what he does?

Well yea by talking his book. Don't know how that would work with trezor.

No, you're assuming he wrote that book too ( Cheesy

). To be more on point, I think you could do it, depending on how good you are at public speaking (you're suitably inspired by the topic, so that's one to chalk up in your favour).

But don't misunderstand: unless you've can get access to the same range of platforms that Andreas has (and he gets everyyyyywhere), you'll not be able to emulate what he did. How did Andreas get himself speaking at government committees, tech conferences and fashionable talk shows? It's all about who you know, not what you know.