Slashdot Items Tagged "anonymity"

Date / Time Story
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:18PM Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment
Monday July 20, 2020 @05:27PM Most Dedicated VPN IP-Addresses Are Not Anonymous
Friday October 11, 2019 @02:55PM Ask Slashdot: Should People Be Able To Shop Anonymously On the Internet?
Monday July 11, 2016 @04:41PM MIT Says Their Anonymity Network Is More Secure Than Tor
Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:57AM Countries That Use Tor Most Are Either Highly Repressive or Highly Liberal
Wednesday March 23, 2016 @08:18PM UK Man Faces Prison For Circumventing UK's Pirate Site Blockade
Monday March 21, 2016 @08:49AM Australia Promises To Remove Tax On Bitcoin, Support FinTech Innovation
Friday March 11, 2016 @02:24PM Russian Bitcoin Issuers Will Risk 7 Years In Prison
Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:02PM Bank of England Looks Into 'Centralized' Bitcoin Alternative, RSCoin
Wednesday March 09, 2016 @03:26PM What Airbnb's Blockchain Authentication Proposal Means For Online Privacy
Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:37AM Tackling The Future Of Digital Trust -- While It Still Exists
Wednesday March 02, 2016 @09:54AM New P2P Torrent Site 'Play' Has No Single Point of Failure
Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:20PM How Shari Steele Plans To Take Tor Mainstream
Friday February 12, 2016 @11:47AM Austrian Minister Calls For a Constitutional Right To Pay In Cash
Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:34PM ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits
Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:45PM French Gov't Gives Facebook 3 Months To Stop Tracking Non-User Browsers
Saturday February 06, 2016 @11:50AM Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers
Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:15PM Shopping Mall SMS Parking Notifications Could Be Used To Track Any Car
Tuesday February 02, 2016 @06:04PM EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users
Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:07AM Netflix Executive Admits a VPN-Blocking Policy Might Be Impossible To Enforce
Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:45AM Tracking Protection In Wi-Fi Networks Coming Soon To Linux
Monday January 11, 2016 @09:08AM Facebook, Shutterfly Face Lawsuits For Using Facial Recognition To ID Photos
Sunday December 27, 2015 @09:36AM How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road
Tuesday November 03, 2015 @12:08PM Stanford Identifies Potential Security Hole In Genomic Data-Sharing Network
Tuesday October 06, 2015 @08:53AM EFF Joins Nameless Coalition and Demands Facebook Kills Its Real Names Policy
Thursday October 01, 2015 @11:20AM Yelp For People To Launch In November
Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:37AM South Korean Citizen IDs Vulnerable, Based On US Model
Friday September 25, 2015 @08:35PM Chrome For Android's Incognito Mode Saves Some of the Sites You Visit
Tuesday September 22, 2015 @11:32AM Chinese Researchers Propose Tor-Inspired Overhaul of Bitcoin
Monday September 21, 2015 @09:16AM India's Worrying Draft Encryption Policy
Thursday July 09, 2015 @07:38AM ICANN's Plan To End Commercial Website Anonymity Creates Real Problems
Friday June 26, 2015 @08:47AM ICANN Seeks Comment On Limiting Anonymized Domain Registration
Sunday June 14, 2015 @12:55AM A Tale of Election Intrigue Wins Bruce Schneier's 8th Movie-Plot Contest
Sunday May 31, 2015 @11:11PM Tor Connections To Hidden Services Could Be Easy To De-Anonymize
Monday May 04, 2015 @12:37AM WikiLeaks' Anonymous Leak Submission System Is Back After Nearly 5 Years
Thursday April 30, 2015 @08:53AM The Sun Newspaper Launches Anonymous Tor-Based WikiLeaks-Style SecureDrop
Sunday April 05, 2015 @12:58AM After Anti-Donation Executive Order, Bitcoin Donations For Snowden Jump
Monday March 09, 2015 @12:10AM Yik Yak Raises Controversy On College Campuses
Wednesday February 25, 2015 @07:17PM US Govt and Private Sector Developing "Precrime" System Against Cyber-Attacks
Saturday February 07, 2015 @02:11AM Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo
Friday January 30, 2015 @08:44AM Mozilla Dusts Off Old Servers, Lights Up Tor Relays
Sunday January 25, 2015 @05:23PM Anonymous Asks Activists To Fight Pedophiles In 'Operation Deatheaters'
Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:05PM Ad Company Using Verizon Tracking Header To Recreate Deleted Cookies
Sunday December 28, 2014 @04:54PM Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry
Saturday December 20, 2014 @01:35AM Tor Network May Be Attacked, Says Project Leader
Sunday December 14, 2014 @03:43PM How Identifiable Are You On the Web?
Saturday November 15, 2014 @06:31PM AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data
Friday November 14, 2014 @03:10PM Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads
Friday November 14, 2014 @02:51PM 81% of Tor Users Can Be De-anonymized By Analysing Router Information
Thursday November 06, 2014 @08:35PM Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco
Tuesday October 14, 2014 @09:57AM Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation
Wednesday September 24, 2014 @11:03PM Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle
Monday September 22, 2014 @06:05PM The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay'
Thursday July 31, 2014 @02:19PM UK Government Report Recommends Ending Online Anonymity
Tuesday May 13, 2014 @08:37AM EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online
Tuesday May 06, 2014 @08:47AM US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat
Saturday May 03, 2014 @04:25PM Opting Out of Big Data Snooping: Harder Than It Looks
Thursday May 01, 2014 @09:18AM DarkMarket, the Decentralized Answer To Silk Road, Is About More Than Just Drugs
Friday April 25, 2014 @10:10AM Identity Dominance: the US Military's Biometric War In Afghanistan
Saturday April 19, 2014 @09:42PM New 'Google' For the Dark Web Makes Buying Dope and Guns Easy
Thursday April 17, 2014 @02:38PM Tor Blacklisting Exit Nodes Vulnerable To Heartbleed
Friday March 14, 2014 @07:47AM Singapore To Regulate Virtual Currency Exchanges
Sunday March 09, 2014 @04:02PM Yik Yak, After Complaints From Schools, Suspends Its Service In Chicago
Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:54PM Why Your Online Impersonation of a 16-year Old Girl Won't Last Long
Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:57PM Florida Arrests High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers For Money Laundering
Friday February 07, 2014 @08:55PM Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht's Next Court Date Set For November
Tuesday February 04, 2014 @08:54AM Facebook Estimates Around 10% of Accounts Are Fake
Sunday January 26, 2014 @12:39AM Spoiled Onions: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays
Friday January 17, 2014 @11:43PM Porn Will Be Bitcoin's Killer App
Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:55PM Ask Slashdot: Getting an Uncooperative Website To Delete One's Account?
Thursday December 26, 2013 @04:54PM Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps
Wednesday December 11, 2013 @01:29PM Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters
Tuesday December 03, 2013 @11:09AM Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto?
Sunday November 24, 2013 @05:20PM Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto
Monday November 18, 2013 @06:24PM Meet the 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins
Friday November 01, 2013 @07:35PM Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds
Tuesday October 22, 2013 @08:29AM Connecting To Unsecured Bluetooth Car Systems To Monitor Traffic Flow
Saturday October 12, 2013 @01:24PM Dataland: the Emerging Dystopia
Wednesday October 09, 2013 @12:25PM 8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come'
Saturday October 05, 2013 @10:42PM DOJ Hasn't Actually Found Silk Road Founder's Bitcoin Yet
Tuesday September 17, 2013 @11:27AM Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved?
Tuesday August 13, 2013 @01:07PM IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet"
Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:40AM Aussie Public Servant Criticises Gov't On Twitter, Gets Sacked
Tuesday August 06, 2013 @08:14AM Project Anonymizes Your Writing Style To Hide Your Identity
Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:12PM Ask Slashdot: Explaining Cloud Privacy Risks To K-12 Teachers?
Thursday May 23, 2013 @05:03PM Bitcoin's Success With Investors Alienates Earliest Adopters
Friday February 22, 2013 @08:32AM Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online
Friday February 01, 2013 @08:25PM Online Narcotics Store 'Silk Road' Is Showing Cracks
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:56AM Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users
Friday December 28, 2012 @07:28PM What Turned VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier Against the Web
Sunday December 16, 2012 @06:32PM When Writing, How Anonymous Can You Be, Really?
Sunday December 16, 2012 @12:45PM Google Map App's Version of Anonymity Might Violate EU Privacy Laws
Thursday December 06, 2012 @02:15PM Facebook Says EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Would Harm Privacy
Friday November 30, 2012 @08:37PM Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node
Saturday November 24, 2012 @08:26AM "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court
Thursday October 25, 2012 @08:41AM UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks
Thursday October 18, 2012 @08:22AM Teen Suicide Tormentor Outed By Anonymous
Tuesday September 25, 2012 @08:33AM Canadian Minister Mined Data To Target Email To Gay Voters
Friday September 21, 2012 @06:07PM Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name
Friday September 21, 2012 @03:12PM Facebook Disables Face Recognition In EU
Sunday September 09, 2012 @12:17PM Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes
Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:11AM Large Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Collapses With a Loss of $5.6 Million
Friday August 24, 2012 @05:45PM BitInstant Continues Bitcoin Paycard Plan
Wednesday August 22, 2012 @11:50PM Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws
Tuesday July 10, 2012 @12:03PM Cell Carriers Responded Last Year To 1.3M Law Enforcement Data Requests
Thursday July 05, 2012 @07:55AM A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How?
Wednesday June 20, 2012 @07:50AM CNET, IDC Find Rapid Increase In Behavioral Data Tracking
Friday June 15, 2012 @06:24PM Australian Gov't Asks eBay To Name Big Sellers
Tuesday June 12, 2012 @10:23AM House of Commons Could Force Social Networks To Identify Trolls
Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:44AM FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor
Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:01AM Google and Facebook Top Biggest Web Tracker List
Wednesday May 23, 2012 @08:04AM Legislation In New York To Ban Anonymous Speech Online
Thursday May 03, 2012 @05:35PM NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates
Sunday April 22, 2012 @08:52AM Anonymous, People's Liberation Front Build Anonymous Data-Sharing Site
Thursday April 19, 2012 @05:58PM FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service
Thursday April 12, 2012 @04:55PM University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats
Monday April 02, 2012 @01:51PM Gawker Media To Require Commenters' Facebook, Twitter, Or Google Logins
Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:14AM Anonymous Cowards, Deanonymized
Friday January 27, 2012 @08:48PM January 28 is Data Privacy Day
Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:36PM Ask Slashdot: Choosing Anonymous Proxies?
Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:23AM Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico
Thursday October 20, 2011 @02:46PM Google+ To End Real Names Policy
Tuesday September 27, 2011 @08:33AM Facebook Cookies Track Users Even After Logging Out
Tuesday September 13, 2011 @11:39AM Purported FBI Report Calls Anonymous a National Security Threat
Monday September 12, 2011 @12:05AM YouTube Disables Comments and User Uploads For Korean Users
Saturday September 10, 2011 @06:39PM Hurt Locker Lawsuits May Reach Canadians, Too
Thursday September 08, 2011 @01:56PM IP Addresses Not Enough To ID Users
Tuesday September 06, 2011 @08:04AM Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product
Friday September 02, 2011 @06:41PM Canadian Court Sides With Online Anonymity
Friday August 26, 2011 @07:05AM The EFF Reflects On ICE Seizing a Tor Exit Node
Saturday August 20, 2011 @07:24AM Microsoft Drops Use of 'Supercookies' On MSN
Thursday August 11, 2011 @02:01PM DHS Creating Database of Secret Watchlists
Monday August 08, 2011 @09:59PM Microsoft Demonstrates Practical Homomorphic Computing
Monday August 08, 2011 @08:26PM Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit
Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:45PM Germany Says Facebook's Facial Recognition Is Illegal
Thursday July 28, 2011 @06:44PM Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter
Monday July 25, 2011 @06:09PM The Internet's Age of Rage
Sunday July 24, 2011 @12:01AM Heathrow To Install Facial Recognition Scanners
Monday July 18, 2011 @02:26PM Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service
Saturday July 09, 2011 @11:41AM Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet
Wednesday June 22, 2011 @01:43PM Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin
Tuesday June 14, 2011 @11:42AM Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin
Monday June 13, 2011 @10:14PM WSJ and Al-Jazeera Lure Whistleblowers
Saturday May 28, 2011 @09:56PM Twitter Reveals User Details In UK Libel Case
Thursday April 28, 2011 @01:12PM EFF Advocates Leaving Wireless Routers Open
Wednesday March 16, 2011 @12:29AM Scott Adams Says Plenty Would Choose Life In Noprivacyville
Tuesday March 15, 2011 @06:55PM Iris-Scan ID Cards For Children In Mexico
Tuesday March 15, 2011 @05:45PM Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online?
Wednesday March 09, 2011 @12:48AM Unmasking Anonymous Email Senders
Saturday March 05, 2011 @10:27AM Posting AC - a Thing of the Past?
Thursday February 03, 2011 @09:32PM Hotmail Launches Accounts You Can Throw Away
Tuesday February 01, 2011 @10:18PM Egyptians Turn To Tor To Organize Dissent Online
Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:44PM Openleaks Goes Live
Friday December 10, 2010 @10:28PM 'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous
Thursday December 09, 2010 @06:47PM OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks'
Thursday November 18, 2010 @09:11PM Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone
Sunday November 14, 2010 @11:10PM Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers
Wednesday November 10, 2010 @10:54AM Nevercookie Eats Evercookies
Tuesday November 09, 2010 @01:20PM Disguised Asian Male Caught At Canadian Airport
Friday November 05, 2010 @08:00PM Street View On iOS Pierces German Privacy Veil
Wednesday November 03, 2010 @10:40AM An Anonymous, Verifiable E-Voting Tech
Tuesday November 02, 2010 @02:08PM NSF Funds Data Anonymization Project
Friday October 22, 2010 @06:08PM Facebook Ads Could 'Out' Gay Users
Thursday October 21, 2010 @05:43PM On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy
Thursday September 16, 2010 @09:58PM Social Media Can Help You Fake Your Own Death
Thursday September 02, 2010 @03:07PM UN Telecom Chief Urges Blackberry Data Sharing
Wednesday September 01, 2010 @07:26PM China Demands Real Names From Mobile Phone Users
Tuesday August 10, 2010 @08:36AM Human Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks
Saturday August 07, 2010 @10:20AM Without Registration, Swedish Law Does Not Protect Wikileaks Sources
Sunday August 01, 2010 @08:04PM Tor Developer Detained At US Border, Pressed On Wikileaks
Sunday August 01, 2010 @07:16AM China Pushes Real Name System For Online Games
Saturday July 31, 2010 @11:11PM Alternatives To Paypal's Virtual Credit Card Service?
Tuesday July 20, 2010 @02:08AM Apple Lays Out Location Collection Policies
Thursday July 15, 2010 @02:48PM Leaving a Comment? That'll Be 99 Cents, and Your Name
Thursday July 01, 2010 @04:11PM Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast'
Sunday June 27, 2010 @01:51PM The Battle For Online Anonymity Is Joined
Saturday June 19, 2010 @03:50AM Italian MEP Wants To Eliminate Anonymity On the Internet
Thursday May 20, 2010 @07:29PM Penn. AG Corbett Subpoenas Twitter For Bloggers' Names
Monday April 26, 2010 @09:16AM In Brazil, Google Fined For Content of Anonymous Posting
Wednesday April 14, 2010 @01:46PM Canadian Judge Orders Disclosure of Anonymous Posters
Sunday March 28, 2010 @07:05AM Israel's Supreme Court Says Yes To Internet Anonymity
Thursday February 04, 2010 @07:18PM Craig Mundie Wants "Internet Driver's Licenses"
Monday January 04, 2010 @02:28PM Net Users In Belarus May Soon Have To Register
Thursday December 03, 2009 @07:54PM UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity
Thursday October 15, 2009 @08:03PM China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day
Sunday August 30, 2009 @01:09PM Personalized In-Game Advertising In Upcoming Titles
Tuesday April 14, 2009 @07:27PM The End of Net Anonymity In Brazil
Thursday September 14, 2006 @01:27AM The Drawbacks of Anonymous Surfing
Monday March 06, 2006 @05:18PM NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums