Also Eric
screws up the logic on anonymity.
It is not personal identity that is important, but rather reputation. Reputation can be separate from personal identity so that we can't be enslaved by totalitarianism, debt rating agencies, etc.. We can be reborn and creative at will. He is trying to say that reputation is a corner case. No it is the case.
Good to read that he at least understands
anonymity for programmers can become entirely necessary.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5640&cpage=1#comment-471894Is Satoshi Nakamoto a hacker?
And Eric's completely
uninformed reply:
>Is Satoshi Nakamoto a hacker?
Yes. And thats his real name, too everybody thought it was a concealing pseudo, but it turns out not.
Winter makes the type of post I would if I wasn't banned:
Eric
cuts to the meat of his authoritarian culture:
>Also how exactly would you define a Concealing Handle?
One that is designed to be easily repudiated so that the user can avoid the legal or reputational consequences of behaviors performed under that identity.