Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works. "There is evidence that a big part of AA’s effectiveness may have nothing to do with the actual (12) steps. It may derive from something more fundamental: the power of the group. The importance of this is reflected by the fact that the more deeply AA members commit to the group, rather than just the program, the better they fare."
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posted by netbros
on Jul 6, 2010 -
145 comments
Internet Anonymity: A Right of the Past? | North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology
A newly designed Internet Protocol, restricting communication source autonomy, is being quietly drafted with detailed technical standards that “define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous” by a United Nations agency. The “IP Traceback” drafting group, which has declined to release key documents or allow their meetings to be open to the public, includes, among others, the United States National Security Agency.
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posted by shetterly
on Jun 25, 2009 -
52 comments
The Anonymity Experiment. Is it possible to hide in plain sight?
Privacy-minded people have long warned of a world in which an individual’s every action leaves a trace, in which corporations and governments can peer at will into your life with a few keystrokes on a computer. Now one of the people in charge of information-gathering for the U.S. government says, essentially, that such a world has arrived.
posted by amyms
on Feb 16, 2008 -
44 comments
This is an ironic tale of the consequences of inept application of cryptographic tools.
Or is it? Dan Egerstad, a Swedish hacker, gained access to hundreds of computer network accounts around the world, belonging to various embassies, corporations and other organizations. How did he do it?
Very easily: by sniffing exit traffic on his
Tor nodes.
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posted by Anything
on Dec 4, 2007 -
27 comments
The No Logs Network is encouraging web hosts and system admins to refrain from keeping site access logs, saying their storage can
constitute a threat to free speech. It sounds like a good idea, but considering how paranoid many system admins tend to be, one has to wonder whether it could ever really take off as a movement.
posted by mrbula
on May 26, 2003 -
24 comments
Are you David Still? If not, well, you can be. David Still has given up his personality to the masses, so you can write to people as him, and better still, reply to people who have sent e-mails back to the enigmatic Mr Still. Potential for confusion: I'd say fair to middling...
posted by creeky
on May 31, 2002 -
2 comments
PrintCafe sues idiot. Literally. They are suing several individuals who posted anonymous comments on F---edCompany's message boards. So far, all they have are the aliases the comments were posted under, namely "Ex-DLJ", "sucky-me", and "idiot!". Apparently that's all they're going to get, since Pud says
here, "FC servers contain no logs
". Also of note is item number 4 on
this page of the letter Pud received.
posted by Potsy
on Nov 28, 2001 -
8 comments
Be careful what you say online. At least if you're in the UK, where an anonymous poster to 2 message boards now faces charges of defamation after the courts ordered the disclosure of their identity. ISP
Totalise used existing law to force Motley Fool to disclose the details of an anonymous poster to their
message boards alleged to have made defamatory comments. Landmark case or storm in a teacup?
posted by Markb
on Mar 23, 2001 -
3 comments
This has been showing up in my referrer log. The site enables you to surf anonymously. It also blocks stats on systems, screen resolution and browser type. It might prove useful to some here. As a designer though, I have concerns about being able to track user statistics.
posted by centrs
on Jul 27, 2000 -
8 comments
This new "FreeNet" sounds like a perfect utopia, where
all information is free like beer, and not just free like speech. Some of the provisions for the network, like
not being able to remove a file,
remaining anonymous, and
not even being able to track down where the files are really coming from make it sound like a anarchist's paradise. I'm wondering though, will it be a place to exchange banned books, or will it be clogged with porn, warez, and mp3s? Will it be populated with idealists against censorship, or AOLers wanting free stuff? Do things always go to the lowest common denominator right away, or does it take time?
posted by mathowie
on Apr 26, 2000 -
5 comments
