Anonymous Online Diaries With Invisiblog

An anonymous reader writes "The Cypherpunks have finally caught on to the blog phenomenon: enter Invisiblog. This blog system allows users to register accounts and update their weblogs using Len Sassaman's Mixmaster anonymous remailer program. Now you can post all those tales of late-night dumpster diving, without fear of being branded a terrorist!"

Comments

Interesting...

[AdamTrace]

... or just a cool place to post those secrets you've been dying to shout out to the world.

that's great...but

[wattersa]

isn't the whole point of a blog to give the world a small peek at what you're doing? If it's anonymous, there's nothing to stop someone from posting absolute fiction. I might as well just write short stories and post them on usenet...

Re:that's great...but

[NeeNee3]

I agree with you. I think that most people want a blog so that they can talk about themselves. Perhaps they use a pseudonym, but after time, I've noticed that most people start revealing more and more information about who they are and where they are, etc. So, a completely anonymous blog seems rather pointless.

Re:that's great...but

[flynt]

isn't the whole point of a blog to give the world a small peek at what you're doing?

No, the point is to trick yourself into thinking that the world actually cares what you're doing.

Re:that's great...but

[NanoGator]

"If it's anonymous, there's nothing to stop someone from posting absolute fiction."

You haven't been reading the articles posted by non-anonymous people here, have ya?

The problem with anonymity

[haloscan]

The problem with anonymity is that you don't know who to blame when it get's slashdotted.

STUPID

[WickedClean]

This reminds me of the time my boss wanted me to code something to prevent web pages from being printed by users. I told him that if the information was so sensitive, he shouldn't be putting it online in the first place.

Slashdot to the rescue

[nacs]

I guess the good thing about the invisblog site being slashdotted offline is that they'll learn from their mistake have better servers next time around a 13 year old doesn't like what someone said on their site and decides to DDoS it.

Why this isn't stupid

[GeoGreg]

There's already a couple of posts to the effect of "don't post anything on the net that you don't want traced back to you." But, that's not an argument against having anonymous publishing forums. Security agencies want to eliminate anonymity as a route to engaging in criminal activity or, more ominously, as a route to expressing dissent. In some countries, the suppression of dissent is explicit. In others, it's implicit. If these countries allow access to the Mixmaster remailer, and individuals use tools to which security agents don't have access, then "nym" weblogs could be a way of publishing information that governments (and other organizations) wish to suppress. The worst they could say is "you sent an encrypted email to someone" (which is bad enough in some places).

Saying "it's pointless to hide your tracks, so don't even try" is giving in to those who wish to be able to track down every dissenter, and I'm not sure we should do that quite yet.

Freenet blogs

[slavemowgli]

Why not publish your blog on Freenet instead ? That way, you can not only publish your blog anonymously, but you can also be sure that there is no single, centralized server where it is stored that could be taken out or attacked. Besides, freenet can always use new nodes!