CRIM 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cookie Monster, Pseudonymity, Identifiability
3 May 2016
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Send email to stephanie crim 218 week 5. One aspect from this week"s lecture or tutorial that you found most interesting and why; you found difficult to understand and why. Many internet users assume that their identity can be readily obscured. Don"t make obvious who you are and no one can tell . Use of handles /pseudonyms adds to this data. A loosening of social restriction and inhibitions that would otherwise be present in normal face-to-face interaction. Users on the internet frequently do or say as they wish without fear of any kind of meaningful reprisal. Consider the ring of gyges (from plato"s republic ) This mythical artefact gave its owner the power to become invisible at will. A measure of anonymity is available through use of pseudonyms. Even though the people at the forum may not know who you really are, the authority (the people behind it) will probably have an idea of who you are.
