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[donau] branch master updated (0cc919b -> ac87e5c)


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Subject: [donau] branch master updated (0cc919b -> ac87e5c)
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:08:56 +0100

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michiel-leenars pushed a change to branch master
in repository donau.

    from 0cc919b  Update requirements
     new c4ba3f1  Slightly reword threats
     new ac87e5c  Slight rewording of ethic, move software part to end

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Summary of changes:
 doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/ethic.tex   |  9 +++++----
 doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/threats.tex | 12 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/ethic.tex 
b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/ethic.tex
index da53301..cbc9b9a 100644
--- a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/ethic.tex
+++ b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/ethic.tex
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 \section*{Ethics considerations and compliance with the open science policy}
 
-This project is a free and open source software project. The program presented 
in this project is available under GNU V3.0 license in the repository 
git.taler.net/donau.git . Reviewers, and later readers, will be able to 
download, compile and install the software as they wish.
+Ethical considerations were at the root of this project. At their essence, 
donations are ethical acts outsourcing a moral drive for change to a third 
party that (promises to) act on them in a manner that is compatible with the 
value system of a donor. Current systems oblige people making donations to 
charities to go on record and report to their government the donations made, 
explicitly linking them to the causes and institution(s) supported. This has a 
self-censoring or chilling effect  [...]
 
-Ethical considerations were at the root of this project. At their essence, 
donations are ethical acts outsourcing a moral drive for change to 
professionals that (promise to) act on them in a manner that is compatible with 
the value system of a donor. Current systems oblige people making donations to 
charities to go on record and report to their government the donations made, 
explicitly linking them to the causes and institution(s) supported. This has a 
self-censoring or chilling effect d [...]
+The current mechanisms also has discriminatory aspects. It places an unfair 
bureaucratic cost on spending an equivalent cumulative amount to philanthropy 
via supporting smaller causes - denying intersectional interests donors may 
have, and disadvantaging smaller, early stage and more lean public causes. The 
latter notably includes "niche" causes linked to (combinations of) cultural, 
sexual, ethnic, religious and social minorities. Smaller causes often do not 
have the capacity to offer su [...]
 
-The current mechanisms place an unfair bureaucratic cost on spending an 
equivalent cumulative amount to philanthropy via supporting smaller causes - 
denying intersectional interests donors may have, and disadvantaging smaller, 
early stage and more lean public causes. The latter notably includes "niche" 
causes linked to (combinations of) cultural, sexual, ethnic, religious and 
social minorities. Smaller causes often do not have the capacity to offer 
support for achieving fiscal compensati [...]
+The aim of this project is to simplify donating for all and offer 
non-discrimatory access to tax benefits and greater protection of privacy, 
leading to greater tax justice and a philanthropic climate. We want to reverse 
the situation where people prefer not to claim the tax reduction to which they 
are entitled in order to protect themselves.
+
+The associated software does not place any ethical dillema's upon the users. 
It is delivered as free and open source software, available under GNU V3.0 
license in the repository git.taler.net/donau.git . Anyone is able to download, 
compile, install, modify and redistribute the software as they wish conditional 
to respecting this license.
 
-The aim of this project is to simplify donating for all and offer 
non-discrimatory access to tax benefits and greater protection of privacy, 
leading to greater tax justice and a philanthropic climate. We want to reverse 
the situation where people prefer not to claim the tax reduction to which they 
are entitled in order to protect their privacy.
diff --git a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/threats.tex 
b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/threats.tex
index bd7b886..ed7049e 100644
--- a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/threats.tex
+++ b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/threats.tex
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ The Donau protocol does not prove that the donor 
identification $\DI$
 used in the $\UDI$s inside the BKPs is that of the actual donor, as
 that is incompatible with the anonymity and confidentiality guarantees
 of the system.  In practice, we expect this threat to be largely
-theoretical: the hypothetical money launderer would need to take a
-significant loss (depending on the tax rate, but generally probably
-more than half, given that common effective tax rates are rarely above
-50\%).  Thus, the costs of laundering money with this method would
-most likely substantially exceed the cost of other methods to launder
-criminal assets.
+theoretical: the hypothetical money launderer would need complex arrangements
+as well as be willing to take a significant loss (depending on the tax rate,
+but generally probably more than half, given that common effective tax rates
+are rarely above 50\%).  Thus, the overhead of laundering money with this
+method would most likely substantially exceed the cost of other methods to
+launder criminal assets.

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