According to PANews on August 25, Vitalik said on the X platform: As a field, we need to lead the construction of anti-fraud technology in a principled way (because if we don’t, the centralized version will be imposed on us in an unprincipled way). The basic meaning of “principled” is:
(i) On-device scanning, which sends no information to Big Brother (corporate or government) (ii) Users can choose very granularly which scanners to accept and which not to accept, and scanners are produced on a competitive market by organizations with different structures (for-profit, community organizations, etc.) and different national or political biases
Crypto kidnapping should be reduced by encouraging wealthy crypto holders to keep their funds in multisigs, where they themselves cannot directly access the information/items on their personal accounts. This is what I do, and I have been advocating others to do the same for a decade (hence my focus on smart contract wallets and account abstraction).
