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This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by smudgymcscmudge »

dang wrote: post #10
dontbenebby wrote: post #7

Is it not allowed to have an anonymous HN account?

Of course it is. We don't ask for names. We don't even have a way for users to give us their name, unless they choose to publish it via their username or the About field of their profile.

Thank you for keeping it this way.

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by Nition »

peteretep wrote: post #3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5638988 243 comments from 6 years ago

I notice a user was offering to contribute one bitcoin to the reward there, upping its value in present-day terms by $9000. At the time, it would have been worth around $135.

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by clubm8 »

This is super interesting, brings back memories. We take for granted how easy anonymity is in age when anyone can spoof their MAC address at a public wifi point and be fairly anonymous.

Question: Is there a technical reason the author does not suggest simply using torsocks? (eg: torsocks ssh sdf.org). I thought maybe it didn't exist in 2013 but the github has some files that date back that far.

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by oil25 »

> ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc -X 4 -x localhost:9050 %h %p" sdf.org

This will send a DNS A record request for sdf.org and on some platforms, a request for SSHFP records, too. Unless the system is configured to route all DNS traffic over Tor, it may be possible to correlate those requests' originating IP with the published update timestamps.

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by ikeboy »

clubm8 wrote: post #18
ikeboy wrote: post #14

Seems long enough that a future AI could connect writing style to other people writing about privacy during this time using an offline copy of the internet.

Maybe not :-) https://github.com/psal/anonymouth

Seems unlikely they would use this and not mention it. Besides, it reads naturally.

I've read spun spam emails, you can easily tell something's off.

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by dontbenebby »

dang wrote: post #10
dontbenebby wrote: post #7

Is it not allowed to have an anonymous HN account?

Of course it is. We don't ask for names. We don't even have a way for users to give us their name, unless they choose to publish it via their username or the About field of their profile.

Thanks!

I thought maybe "HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to." meant our nyms should point to a real person, and that the account mentioned in the article was terminated for being registered via Tor.

I try to find the middle ground with this account.

You can probably find out who I am, but I hope people will respect it's important to have nyms where we can have informal convos. (Also luckily most snoopers are lazy so simply not tying my legal name to this is sufficient considering I'm not expressing anything particularly controversial...)

Kind of like how half of Gotham seems to know who Batman is, but they pretend not to ;)

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