On Apr 29, 2004, at 20:03, An Metet wrote:
I'm a big user of anonymity systems, and the worst problem I've had with proxies is remembering who I am supposed to be at the time. Several times with Freedom and more recently with other proxies, I have done stuff using my real name when I was in the mode where my nym was being used, and vice versa. Oops. That's a pretty big mistake to make and can totally destroy your pseudonymity, both at the time and throughout the past lifetime of the nym.
What I'd like would be some kind of big, glaring indication that I am in "anonymous" mode, like overlaying some kind of color display on the screen, or maybe a crawling animation around the edges, or something. I realize that this is out of scope for most efforts of this type, but from my experience it's a big problem.
If I recall correctly, (and it's possible I don't), the ZKS freedom.net client had features to pattern match strings (that you configure) when you were using your nym, and warn you with a popup message box when it detected them in outgoing traffic. So you could be sure you weren't inadvertently sending data that could compromise your nym (like your real name, or your other nym's names, etc). --bgt