On "Real Name" Policies

many years ago i mustered a campaign to reverse four square's real name policy, with the help of a former AOL executive and the former public health comissioner of a large state other than my own.

as i go off to start the christmas season with my... lists... i wish we wouldn't reinvent these debates every 5-10 years.

one point this author misses is many folks are not american - dissidents in places like russia and china are not young wannabe cryptoanarchists wanting to steal the music they cannot afford at sam goody, they are dissidents, a forever decision that means a life of fearless, adversarial ratfucking of any and all attempts to identify you that are encountered if you want to live to troll another day.

nyms are like underwear, meant to be discarded and begun anew when worn out -- and open source should be able to tolerate such a cycle if we want to continue to see projects like how truecrypt became veracrypt and others come to fruition