Comments on: How to Blog Anonymously

By: The Cafes » Sign Your Posts

The Cafes » Sign Your Posts — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:26:09 +0000

[...] written previously about anonymous blogging, and if that’s really what you want to do, by all means do it. [...]

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:25:18 +0000

That would be covered in Chapter 1: Get a Free Blog.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:39:08 +0000

Under “Serious Anonymity,” how do you pay your hosting site without revealing your identity?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:34:20 +0000

You actually would want to upload from the coffee shop around the corner, at least as often as you do from other locations, if you want to remain anonymous. If you’re moving around “randomly” and there’s one particular coffee shop that you don’t upload from, then it stands to reason you’re avoiding it for some reason. It’s not a far leap from that to “you live near that coffee shop”. Your “local” environment should occur in your random walk of upload sites just as often as every other environment, unless the entirety of your random walk coverage doesn’t overlap or impinge on your local environment. If there’s no overlap then there’s no reason to notice your local coffee shop any more than any other coffee shop outside the random-walk area.

By: secure email

secure email — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:31:27 +0000

I would not be that afraid from the CIA or any governments. If they tap your wire you probably have something going one bigger. Nevertheless, anonymity is very important. Just the fact that others can “spy” on you with Google and other search engines makes the Internet the No. 1 open source for personal information gathering.

By: Megginson Technologies: Quoderat » Blog Archive » Anonymity and freedom

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:47:34 +0000

[...] Elliotte Rusty Harold is right that anonymity goes together with freedom, and I was happy to read his excellent posting How to Blog Anonymously. Rusty distinguishes three different kinds of anonymity — roughtly “I don’t want to be embarrassed”, “I don’t want to be fired”, and “I don’t want to be hauled out of my bed by the secret police and shot” — and talks about the steps necessary to achieve each one. [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:37:09 +0000

I have to advise caution when using public library access points.

In some cases, e.g. my local library, your library card is used as the access token for a session. This information may be logged. The logging may be a policy, or even a municipal requirement.

In general, public libraries will not retain these logs for long periods of time, but local libraries differ in their policies.

Even if you bring in your own computer and connect to the library’s wireless network, the access token is the library card.

Again, this may vary by locale, and the logging for wireless access may differ from that for direct use of the library’s computers.

On the positive side, local libraries are very up-front about their logging policies, so it’s easy to ask what the policy is and get a straight answer. For example, I was told exactly how to reboot a machine when I wanted to purge browser cache files, and was told what software was used for this, and that it overwrote before file-deletion to foil block-scanners.