blog anonymously, hide your identity and stay safe

May 8, 2008

Why would you blog anonymously, hiding your name and anything what relates to you? This is for some special occasions.

Let’s say you live in the country with autocratic political regime, and authorities are pretty ruthless to every type of resistance and everyone who has bad words to actual regime. And you do not want to expose too much private data while blogging.

Above all, you really want your country to become better and opened to the world with more freedom for people. And the truth is that you persistently want to help people who are fighting against brutal regime. Regimes can be more or less brutal, but lets say you are dealing here with considerable ruthless one, and further more you are sick of watching glutton and lust people who are close to government and regime, and on the other hand people leaving hard in agony and even poverty.

And reality is that you are a blogger, and your weapons are your computer, blog platform and content of what you have to say. With blogging you want to help resistance and to expend the word and that way include more people in fight. Blogging for freedom. But, lets just for example, say that you have a friend who also was blogging about corruption and regime evilness, but few posts latter police came on the door and took him away. Few months later he is out of jail but he has changed drastically, don’t talk much, and he don’t want to fight anymore and blogging on that subject is not an option further. You are angry.

So let me ask you, are you the one who will persist here? But the bottom line here is how to blog anonymously.

I have read an interesting article on this subject which shows you how to hide yourself on the internet, outlining several methods for blogging anonymously:

using pseudonyms

public computers

anonymous proxies

MixMaster, Invisiblog and GPG

This list is an extract from Zuckerman’s article on this topic. And i suggest you read it and find how is hard to stay anonymous online. Even applying this you have to be more technical to be sure you hide yourself if you want that. The article is showing through example where character Sarah who works in a government sees deputy minister is stealing large amounts of money from the government. She was afraid to reveal that. Even if she hide her name on blog they can find her IP adress. And to the difference of my example it can happen in any country.

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