Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 18:12:09 06/30/00
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On June 30, 2000 at 04:08:11, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >You mix up privacy with anonimity. > I don't mix them up, one depends on the other. If not, please explain how I’d protect my _privacy_ (for example what is it that I am doing now) if I have to use my real name to sign this post (lack of _anonymity_). >Non trackable, or privately walking the streets of internet, that's what you >mean. That's something else from being anonymous. No, that is what I mean. It has to do with being anonymous to a site I visit and choose not to give them my real name. Of course you are not anonymous to your ISP but you can choose to be anonymous to others. >Encription has nothing to to >with being anonymous, it has to do with privacy. I was indeed talking about encryption and privacy concerns. Look up the previous post. > >How much I love the anarchy that Internet is, the bare fact is that more than >90% of the anonymous participants on it are troublemakers, particularly in >newsgroups and bulletin boards. Do you ever use one of the chat apps? _Everybody_ uses a handle. My guess is that because of immediate feedback people learn quicker not give out their real name so easily. If people using handles are troublemakers, they can be dealt with in exactly the same way as people using their real names are. I see nothing wrong with the company running the message board knowing your real name (if they keep try to keep it private). > >In with privacy, out with anonimity. > Impossible. >Jeroen ;-} > >jimvandorp@wxs.nl >http://zip.to/jeroen
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