Dnia poniedziałek, 20 stycznia 2014 20:35:48 Philip Shaw pisze: > On 20 Jan 2014, at 19:40 , rysiek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dnia niedziela, 19 stycznia 2014 22:43:28 Troy Benjegerdes pisze: > >> The experience (experiment?) did, however, confirm my personal conviction > >> that privacy and anonymity are expensive, and we as a society generally > >> have to pay that cost for others, and the cost continues to spiral out of > >> control as surveillance capabilities spiral out of control. > > > > Indeed. However, *pseudonymity* offers the benefits of identifiability > > without many of the drawbacks of total anonymity. > > In many ways psuedonymity is easier, but it does increase the importance of > being very careful to avoid giving out revealing information.
Ah, apologies. I was unclear. I was refering to the perspective of a community, not the individual (as has Troy, I believe). As in: anonymity poses significant problems for any community that tries to honour it. For example anonymous remailer trolls and flames on this list are a concrete "cost" of the fact that the list accepts anonymous remailers. Pseudonymity (along with some reputation-based mechanisms) helps to alleviate that, to some extent, while retaining some of the most important advantages of personal anonymity. By the way, I'm perfectly okay with the cost-benefit trade-off we're making on this list with anonymous remailers, please do not treat the above as a suggestion (pardon! idea ;) ) to remove that option. > Over time, small details which are easily leaked (either explicitly, or > through unintentional references to local facts, events, and jargon, areas > of interest, personal details hinting at age, gender, etc., and so on), can > build up into enough detail to identify a person down to a very few people, > at least for those with the resources and inclination to make such an > attempt. Indeed. > One strategy I have heard of to mitigate that risk is creating a > deliberately false persona, one which lives in the same city but in totally > different circumstances (changing their family relationships, type of > house, etc.), and adjusting tehri comments to fit that, which reduces the > risk of accidental disclosure but requires more effort than ordinary > psuedonymity. Seems legit, thanks. -- Pozdr rysiek
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