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This quote is just one of 9 total Austin Hill quotes in our collection. Austin Hill is known for saying 'The idea behind the pseudonyms is that you can eliminate the dossier effect, where everything you're doing is being collected, archived, and linked to you.' as well as some of the following quotes.
[ISPs also benefit from joining the Freedom Network, Hill says, because it limits their legal liabilities.] We've seen cases where users get into a flame war that ends up in a civil suit and the ISP gets dragged in, ... It's a lot easier to be able to say, 'I don't have any data on this.' It's an encrypted stream of traffic.
You could go to a store, buy an MP3, pay with e-cash and walk away, ... And you might do that under your music-listening pseudonym. That way, they can give you great referrals, but they don't know who you are.
You can have separate identities for the separate parts of your life. For example, you can have a health-care identity that you use to discuss your health care problems, and a separate identity that you use to apply for health insurance, which is your true identity. But now, those two identities are separated.
This quote is just one of 9 total Austin Hill quotes in our collection. Austin Hill is known for saying 'The idea behind the pseudonyms is that you can eliminate the dossier effect, where everything you're doing is being collected, archived, and linked to you.' as well as some of the following quotes.