On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 01:09:39PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > You may have noticed that I, previously known only known under the > pseudonym adrelanos, decided to give up my pseudonymity. It was an > interesting experience to pseudonymously maintain a Linux distribution > (Whonix). I've learned a lot during these ~ 2 years. > > I didn't have too bad luck in the lottery of life and are won a > citizenship, which is at low risk compared to less lucky ones. Living in > a country, where pseudonymity for this kind of activity isn't crucial. > Fortunately, according to latest press, neither the US nor Germany are > killing their own citizen for criticizing "the system". That is, the > mass surveillance police state, the military industrial complex, the > system of economy, that needs exponential growth to prevent imploding. > And so it doesn't become even worse, and better for the less lucky ones, > it is important to speak out in public and to take action. > > Staying pseudonymous for such a long time became more and more a burden. > For me, it is not healthy for psychology. When pseudonymously working a > a project, you cannot tell anyone about it and they're wondering with > what you never tell much. You need to constantly second guess every tiny > action. Concentrate on not messing up. Also you'll never know if you > already messed up and if "they" already know who you are. You only need > to mess up once, and you're always linked to that project. Lucky me, I > wasn't forced to stay pseudonymous for ever. > > I am looking forward to continue contributing to the awesome Free (as in > freedom) Software community. Being no longer pseudonymous allows me to > speak at conferences, to attend key singing parties, to meet up with > other developers, to voice chat with other developers, to chat on IRC > without fear of leaking too much information, to be less paranoid, > sometimes even running searches in clearnet if that is more convenient, > and so forth.
I don't understand purpose of your post. Are you promote openness and transparency? -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
