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Originally Posted by notime
The fear and people being insecure part I understand but the "The illusion of practical anonymity" needs more detailed explaining for me to understand what you mean.
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I mean that it's an illusion that we have anonymity on the internet. you can take some practical steps to control the information about yourself you reveal, like knowing that anybody can use whois to get your real name if you are not paying for privacy, and can at least figure out where you host, look at your sponsor IDs, see how you run your business.
so we have "practical anonymity" if we practice basic net hygeine; but really, if somebody seriously wanted to find out who was behind a nick, there's a decent chance they could.
and for sure the government could. probably most corporations easily could. privacy is an illusion.