[LINK] Crypto parties to protect against govt intrusions

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com>wrote:

> switched
> on their laptops and learned how to become anonymous.
>

Privacy is one thing, and I´m all for it, like secure (https) browsing,
encryption and the like.

Anonymity is another. When I write an email I´d like to know I´m writing to
Jan Whitaker and that I can google the name and learn about the other
person.

On the other hand if you wrote as "wizardboop123" I wouldn´t take your
writings with the same degree of attention...

Anonimity breeds easier ability to create so-called "sock puppets". And
then you don´t know whom you´re talking about anymore...

Unless you live in a bloody dictatorshipwith a track record of imprisoning
and torturing dissidents, I´d like to know whom I am talking -or exchanging
emails- with. For the same reason I wouldn´t engage in a chat with someone
wearing a mask while walking down the street.

FC

-- 
During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act
- George Orwell