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The interesting thing about the answers given there, is that they seem to assume you can only have one identity at a time. Why not simply have multiple identiti
by phaemon 13y ago
The interesting thing about the answers given there, is that they seem to assume you can only have one identity at a time. Why not simply have multiple identities?
Anonymising yourself then simply becomes a matter of picking a new name for yourself and never telling anyone what it is and never doing anything under that name. It's a pretty useless form of anonymity of course, but it does suggest that anonymity itself isn't really particularly useful.
Perhaps anonymous acts are what are really desired? The question of how to act anonymously might provide different answers.
- buro9 13y agoThe problem is the ease at which the various identities can be identified as belong to the same person. Very few people have the kind of processes that really protect that online personas from being uncovered. It's non-trivial to ensure that you always associate cookies , IP addresses, browser signatures, behaviour... with one persona and yet never ever leak that to another. Bear in mind that computers are so precise in their work here that you only need screw up once to burn that persona forever. Pseudonymity is achievable, but unless you say nothing and participate in nothing anonymity is incredibly hard to achieve for a single persona. Anonymity is exponentially harder to achieve when you have multiple personas. And this is before you get into face recognition of photos, language analysis, gait analysis etc all attempting to to the real you from the very things that are harder to fake.