Hypothetically, say, actor X
is a govt' org or a powerful corporation who wants to attack a very specific person NO
(a node operator). X
dosn't have any concrete evidence, that X
could show and use to have NO
's home raided or otherwise arrest them.
However, if X
knows, that they're operating a node. Now, X
could take something that's illegal in most countries (child pornography for instance), compress and add it to the blockchain. (Edit: I mean this done undercover obviously or so.). While that would be an expensive one-time operation, X
could then now go to the node operator and simply ask "Do you have child pornography in your custody?". This would be problematic. If the node operator says 'No.', then X
can say, that they think that the node operator has copies of the blockchain data - and hence illegal content. If the NO
says "Yes", then that's a reason for arrest.
The problem is, that this could be used as a general reason to arrest ANY node operator regardless of the actual motivation the actor X has. It doesn't matter. X
can always say, that the NO has illegal blockchain data they're serving to the internet. And X
would be always right and could prove that in front of court. Also, it doesn't matter who uploads such data in the first place. If the data exists on-chain, it can be used for a legal attack.
What do you think about this? Just because this hasn't happend yet, I doesn't mean, that it still can't be misused. Just look at SONY's copyright legal case against Quad9, a neutral non-tracking DNS provider.
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