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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: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120420/04570818576/fbi-seized-anonymizer-server.shtml

FBI Seized Anonymizer Server

De-anonymization is not X: The Need for Re-identification Science 33 Bits of Entropy

http://33bits.org/2009/10/14/de-anonymization-is-not-x-the-need-for-re-identification-science/ 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 .
http://randomwalker.info/social-networks/

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

A blog covering security and security technology. « Learning About Giant Squid From Sperm Whale Stomachs | Main | Definition of "Weapon of Mass Destruction" » Identifying People using Anonymous Social Networking Data http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/identifying_peo.html
A 1993 New Yorker cartoon famously proclaimed, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/07/there-no-such-thing-anonymous-online-tracking

There is no such thing as anonymous online tracking | Stanford Center for Internet and Society

http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2011/07/24/on-the-issue-of-pseudonymity/ Honestly, I feel like I write this post every year.

On the Issue of Pseudonymity

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/07/google-plus-user-names/ <img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-38582" title="google-plus-login-page" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/business/2011/07/google-plus-login-page-660x346.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="346" />

Google+ Identity Crisis: What’s at Stake With Real Names and Privacy | Epicenter 

Danish Police Aim to End Anonymity on the Internet

http://www.pcworld.com/article/231249/danish_police_aim_to_end_anonymity_on_the_internet.html 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 .
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-anonymous-surfing-service.htm 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.

Best Free Anonymous Surfing Service