#anonymity on Hacker News

13 stories tagged anonymity, newest first.

Screenshot of talkweb.eu: I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27 (talkweb.eu)

501 points by Tomte 23 hours ago | 242 comments

Blog post announcing the Digital Dissident Devroom at FOSDEM 2027 and its call for talks on censorship circumvention, metadata-resistant messaging and at-risk user tools.

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Screenshot of blog.torproject.org: A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad (blog.torproject.org)

109 points by runtimewire 17 days ago | 253 comments

A Tor Project blog post issuing a statement about the organization's relationship with the VPN company Mullvad.

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Screenshot of david.alvarezrosa.com: Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (david.alvarezrosa.com)

324 points by mooreds 28 days ago | 106 comments

Blog post by David Álvarez Rosa describing making his personal website available over Tor as a .onion hidden service.

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Screenshot of nonogra.ph: Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech (nonogra.ph)

885 points by arkhiver 3 months ago | 523 comments

An anonymous opinion post arguing that age verification laws in the US, Europe, and Australia are a precursor to tying online speech to people's real identities.

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Screenshot of discuss.privacyguides.net: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message

Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message (discuss.privacyguides.net)

575 points by negura 5 months ago | 427 comments

Privacy Guides forum thread discussing Google account registration now requiring users to send an SMS from their phone (via QR code) rather than receive one.

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Screenshot of theargumentmag.com: Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (theargumentmag.com)

450 points by ilamont 6 months ago | 240 comments

Kelsey Piper essay in The Argument on how AI models like Claude Opus 4.7 can identify her from about 150 words of writing, ending anonymity with AI.

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Screenshot of servury.com: Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does

Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does (servury.com)

390 points by ybceo 10 months ago | 252 comments

A blog post from Servury arguing that privacy has become a marketing term and that true anonymity must be built into system architecture; page showed a Cloudflare check.

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Screenshot of thereader.mitpress.mit.edu: Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

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Screenshot of blog.torproject.org: Is Tor still safe to use?

Is Tor still safe to use?(blog.torproject.org)

727 points by Sami_Lehtinen 2 years ago | 505 comments

Tor Project blog post from September 2024 addressing whether Tor remains safe to use following reports of deanonymization attacks.

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Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location (cellio.dreamwidth.org)

552 points by throwaway_08932 2 years ago | 245 comments

A Dreamwidth blog post about Glassdoor adding the author's real name and location to their profile without consent; the capture shows a captcha check page.

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