On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, mattd wrote:
the absurdity of thinking you can ever be truly anonymous.
Agent justine.
BOLLOCKS! The fucking bungling idiots are cooking up virus's to scope and send passphases for FUN!? Give us a fucking break. Plenty are truly anonymous,more every day.
Depends on what one is meaning by 'anonymous'. Context is quite important. Can somebody go through their entire life completely anonymously? Not likely. Email on the internet? Likely, if they are very careful and nobody has any reason to suspect them of anything for some other reason. It's a set theory sort of issue. Thinks like 'signature analysis' come in handy. When people engage in ANY activity there is 'evidence' left behind. The trick is to understand the (hopefully) distinctive differences in different activities. Then one can 'measure' the sample at the site and (supposedly within some delta of error) determine what did happen. The only way to be truly anonymous would be to never leave any sort of evidence. That's (at least for any practical intent or purpose) impossible. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------