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The US State Department keeps saying it wants to support a free and open internet, and to build systems that protect dissedents and reformers who are speaking out. But it seems that they can't get the message through to the rest of the US government. Apparently the FBI has seized a server used by various people to anonymize their emails , because it was also used as part of a bomb threat:
FBI Seized Anonymizer Server
May 13, 2009 at 6:42 am
Your Morning Commute is Unique: On the Anonymity of Home/Work Location Pairs
De-anonymization is not X: The Need for Re-identification Science 33 Bits of Entropy
October 14, 2009 at 9:42 pm In an abstract sense, re-identifying a record in an anonymized collection using a piece of auxiliary information is nothing more than identifying which of N vectors best matches a given vector. As such, it is related to many well-studied problems from other areas of information science: the record linkage problem in statistics and census studies, the search problem in information retrieval, the classification problem in machine learning , and finally, biometric identification .
De-anonymizing Social Networks
Operators of online social networks are increasingly sharing potentially sensitive information about users and their relationships with advertisers, application developers, and data-mining researchers.Identifying People using Anonymous Social Networking Data
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A 1993 New Yorker cartoon famously proclaimed, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
There is no such thing as anonymous online tracking | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
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Google+ Identity Crisis: What’s at Stake With Real Names and Privacy | Epicenter
Danish Police Aim to End Anonymity on the Internet
A proposal has been put forward by a working group at the Danish Ministry of Justice that will essentially eradicate anonymous use of the Internet, according to Computerworld Denmark .
JonDo (previously known as JAP ) is a client program, used with a Proxy Server system, written in Java for routing data across the JonDo network.