Anonymity

"incentives"

"do this or you dont eat"

3rd parties online= proxy

-tor: bounce across # of different things

Spontaneous Organization

-usually you come up with a concrete purpose or a goal, THEN organize a group around achieving that -this can now happen backwards thanks to the internet --the group organizes then just sort of ennds up doing something surprisingly useful or complex Ex. flash mobs

Anonymity is not magic math

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Cognitive surplus

Industrial Revolution moved from farm to the city no more dawn to dusk but 8 hour days

Quasi-Anonymity

When people aren't perfectly hidden, but more or less act like it

voting

anonymous we say "secret" ballot, but thats technically wrong

Tor

bounce across # of different things -why allowed? military needs it too -not really encrypted by itself -exit nodes are dangerous -the bad guys will use it too

encryption

hides the contents of the message

anonymity

hides the identity of the sender

Encryption does not equal Anonymity

they are related but can be different