[LINK] Crypto parties to protect against govt intrusions

[Jan Whitaker]

At 03:43 PM 24/09/2012, Fernando Cassia wrote:

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

Very good point. It takes time to build online 
trust, even if you think you know the person with 
a real name. It's somewhat like trusting the Mitt 
Romney entry on Wikipedia. (Take a look at it and 
the George W Bush one and compare -- amazingling 
quite different. Someone asked me if they went to 
the same uni, so I went to wikipedia to look that up.)

Sock puppets are all over the comments columns. 
They get a reputation after awhile and the 
commenters get to know one another. It's an 
interesting thing to watch, even amongst 
thousands of comments on places like Huffington Post.

I think anonymity has its place, still. Don't we 
all self-manage our writings when under own names 
and our reputations are involved? I probably don't do that as much as I should.

I guess the point of protection is more from 
being amalgamated and tracked without a choice. 
We have been brought up (those of us old enough 
to remember) on the idea that the Internet is 
built to work around blockages. I think this is 
just another one of those pushback strategies.

I saw on another list that there is going to be 
one of these Crypto parties in Sydney on October 13.
<https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/Sydney>https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/<https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/Sydney>Sydney 

CryptoParty Sydney, Australia
@sydcryptoparty
#SydCryptoParty
Date: Saturday 13th Oct. Planning currently under 
way. Watch this page and twitter for announcements!
Time: 6pm till late
Venue: TBA
Tickets: 
<http://sydcryptoparty.eventbrite.com.au/>Can be 
found here This is just for planning purposes
Contact: sydcryptoparty [at] gmail [dot] com

Jan



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