Archive for the 'Anonymous' Category
The end of anonymity
March 9th, 2010BBC – “Thanks to the internet, there is no such thing as anonymity. So says Dr Ari Juels, the chief scientist of RSA, the security vendor behind the world’s biggest security conference. If you think about all the digital crumbs we leave all over cyberspace, Dr Juels’s assertion is not that hard to understand.”
Anonymous comments: Virginia Tech student paper’s Web site raising hackles
February 14th, 2010Columbus Dispatch – “A Virginia Tech advisory committee has recommended that the university cut funding to all campus media unless the student newspaper bans anonymous comments on its Web site. The University Commission on Student Affairs, mostly made up of students, decided that the way the newspaper monitors online comments is irresponsible, lacks accountability, victimizes [...]
Stand up, say who you are
October 30th, 2008National Law Journal – "Anonymity poses a significant threat on the Internet, because it allows bloggers to promote harmful speech without bearing any significant risk of loss, thereby undermining the legal premise that those causing harm can be "held accountable." As a result, a harmed person may believe that he or she is without adequate [...]
Douse the online flamers
March 2nd, 2008Andrew Keen – “Faceless Internet sadists who ruin reputations don’t deserve full free-speech protection” (via)
More on Anonymous Blogging
November 1st, 2007Steven Bell – “I’d like to add to the ongoing conversation about anonymous blogging, I agree that it has its place. I’ve noted that a number of faculty blogs are anonymous, and I can understand someone being concerned about their views impacting on their current job or future opportunities. However I have a problem with [...]
Anonymous
September 20th, 2007Morgan Wilson – “Sometimes I think that if I were starting blogging today, I would choose to write under a pseudonym.”
I think I would do the same.
