Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Anonymity on the Internet In a  project funded by the National Science Foundation's Ethics and Values Studies Program, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has conducted a project that addresses the effects of anonymous and pseudonymous communications on the Internet. Freedom vs Evil This is an interesting debate since most people believe that anonymous communications are responsible for spam, viruses and fraudulent  transactions on the Internet. There are a number of case examples to highlight the issues. Here is the document with recommendations from the AAAS Thanks to Joi Ito for this info 11:28:57 PM    comment []

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