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Should the anonymity shroud be lifted online?

With a blogger now suing Google for breaching her anonymity, after the blogger was sued defaming a celebrity on gratuitous levels, questions about online anonymity have been raised once again. Thoughts spoken aloud by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Anonymity, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Delete the hate - don't ban anonymity

There's been a fair amount of discussion of online anonymity lately. Paul Carr, a columnist at Telegraph.co.uk wrote that there is no place for anonymous comments on the Internet. [‘Rascal! Your name!’: Schopenhauer vs the Internet trolls] I’m in no doubt that if we forced...

Tags: Anonymity, Internet, Web 2.0, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Anonymity and the Internet

A case winding its way through a court in Pennsylvania attempts to pierce the veil of anonymity that protects web forum participants' ability to say whatever they want about public figures. Though I don't agree with the conclusions of the judge, I am not fan of anonymity of the...

Tags: Anonymity, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Time to out drug test reviewers?

Pfizer is suing the New England Journal of Medicine, aiming to learn the names of anonymous reviewers who conducted peer reviews on its pain relief drug Celebrex. Donald Kennedy, outgoing editor of Science Magazine right, says this is a direct threat to all science. Anonymity...

Tags: Pfizer Inc., Fact, Anonymity, Reviewers, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Facebook and employment: an equal opportunity information trap

After years of "fired blogger" stories in the headlines, it's fairly well understood that a frivolous, embarrassing, out-of-context, or ill-considered online data trail can and does cause problems for employment candidates and employees. But when CollegeRecruiter.com asked employment lawyer and blawger George Lenard to examine the increasingly common employer...

Tags: Voice, Trust, Social networking, Privacy, Marketing, Free speech, Anonymity, Collaboration

Blog posts 2007-07-16

"Creating a permanent record of things that we do casually"

Current.tv has a good "pod" (if not a good branding department; really, can't we call these things something else?) titled They're Watching, featuring the insights of Mark Rasch, former head of Computer Crime for the U.S. Department of Justice. The subject of the video left at least 56 digital...

Tags: Privacy, Attention, Anonymity

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Providing Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensor networks are often used to monitor sensitive information from the environment or track sensitive objects' movements. Anonymity has become an important problem in sensor networks, and has been widely researched in wireless ad hoc and wired networks. The limited capacity and resources of current sensor networks have brought new...

Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Anonymity, Wireless, Sensor Network, Networking

White papers 2007-04-27

Blogging codes of conduct: consensus still seems unlikely

My thoughts about consensus on a blogging code of conduct are unchanged: consensus is unlikely, but the discussion is useful. Here are some comments I sent this morning to an editor at Der Spiegel Online (is it just me, or is the tenor of these questions in keeping...

Tags: Voice, Trust, Free speech, Live Web, Defamation, Collaboration, Blogging, Attention, Anonymity

Blog posts 2007-04-10

On anonymity

I should have renamed it Keens code of misconduct. Minus 28 votes, 72 mostly critical comments... Wow! I never realized I was so spankingly popular."Eh, Adolf Stalin, faschocommunista girlie, tell me what do you REALLY think about anonymity..." One of my more historically erudite critics anonymously emailed asked me over...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-03

Courts continue to immunize community sites under CDA Section 230, but what about the Live Web?

Hard on the heels of a Texas district courts recent decision to dismiss claims against MySpace, Howard Bashman spotted a recent Section 230 decision out of the First Circuit that continues in this vein, and emphasizes the clear judicial trend of applying Section 230s protections to Web sites acting as...

Tags: User generated content, Mashups, Defamation, Podcasting, Live Web, Free speech, Copyright, Blogging, Anonymity

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Thought balloon: Twitter for business?

Its interesting to watch a different kind of social networking microcosm — different in its unique fit for mobile devices, and in the way it takes shoot-from-the-hip informality to a new level — emerge in Twitter. It got me thinking about the benefits and potential hilarities that would accompany...

Tags: Anonymity, Blogging, Social networking, Voice, Attention, Twitter

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Should the online world reflect the "real" world?

Much is being written around the thread of conversation that David Weinberger started and I responded to. I resolved long ago never to speak publicly about "privacy," as the conversation seems to immediately dive into a black-hole of nothingness. However, at the risk of falling into the same hole around...

Tags: anonymity

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Anonymity and identity

In the very near wake of a foiled terrorist plot, I find myself waking up, planning to write about the topic of anonymity and identity. The original impetus for my post is a recent article by David Weinberger. In that article, David argues for anonymity as a "default" in the...

Tags: anonymity, identity

Blog posts 2006-08-10

AiS AliveProxy server 4.5.4.439 (Windows)

Do you need more anonymity? Do you want to have the freshest proxy list? Just run AiS Alive Proxy! It is the most powerful program for proxy lists processing, anonymous web surfing and sharing your Internet connection.

Tags: Web Surfing, Server, Anonymity, AtomInterSoft, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2005-01-14

ProBNC IRC Bouncer 2.6 (Windows)

Handy software for windows which allows you to connect to the IRC network even if you have a restricted connection. Also permits you to keep your anonymity. Some great features like flood protection, auto managing of server's PINGs, and multi-ip support.

Tags: IRC, Anonymity, ProBNC, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Microsoft Windows, Construction, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2002-02-24

Additional Resources

xB Browser 2.9.4.28 (Windows)

The main advantage compared to other anonymous Web browsers is that xB Browser requires no configuration or technical knowledge in order to achieve anonymity. xB Browser is open-source so you can feel safe knowing what goes into our code. Additionally, it is even portable on a USB stick so you...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cookie, XeroBank, xB Browser

Software downloads 2009-10-24

News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., E-books, Desktops, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Identity Cloaker 1.1.5 (Windows)

Identity Cloaker is a technologically advanced "Internet Privacy and Anonymity Protection Service", designed to be easy to use even for a complete computer newbie, yet offering a very high level of protection and versatility demanded by power-users. Identity Cloaker protects the user's privacy and anonymity on the Internet by encrypting...

Tags: IdentityCloaker, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Flash Memory, Networking, Network Security, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-12

'Smoking gun' emails in Viacom-YouTube case

Is this a smoking gun in the Viacom-YouTube suit? News.com's Greg Sandoval reports that evidence has surfaced that may undercut YouTube's argument that it has safe harbor protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-10-07

The case of the fake money-mules: Inside the URLZone Trojan network

Security EvangelistHi, boy I sure wish people would stop using the word Evangelist in the wrong way. An Evangelist is someone you preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not a secular title at all. Wikipedia recently removed the secular definition and Webster is researching it. Evangelist is from the Greek...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Banking, E-business/E-commerce, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Personal finance, SECURITY, network, trojan horse, online banking, bank, virus

Discussion threads 2009-10-06