The to date scariest thing I found out about Monero is that the people behind Monero host cryptographic tools that are only crypto theater. For years. And without an issue tracker, people taking Monero devs seriously will inevitably fall for the temptation to use these tools.
https://github.com/monero-project/urs promises:
"URS can be used to sign plaintext or binaries anonymously (among a group of known users). That is a user can sign a message, hiding among a group of known/registered users, that prevents the verifier from revealing the signer's identity other than knowing that it is in the set of registered users."
7 years ago, these claims were found to be false and the Monero devs never removed this repository or marked it as dangerous?
Thanks for bringing this up. Someone brought your note to the attention of Monero IRC group and they removed it. Agreed with you it should have been taken down a long time ago. The original also added a warning to it a few days ago.
Removed:
https://github.com/monero-project/urs
Warning added:
The warning they added upon my initiative. I suggested to keep the repository up for posterity. Who knows who's using the library and with the repo disappearing, they might just wonder why it's gone.
