Show HN: Anonymous messaging with a 1km radius

Re:Show HN: Anonymous messaging with a 1km radius by debt on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:16PM (#12808687)

I don't understand the anonymous angle. Why does everything have to be anonymous now? Like, you know if it uses the internet or touches a switch/router/server etc outside of your own home at any point that it's certainly, most definitely NOT anonymous at this point.

Anonymous has become a pointless buzzword in this NSA-era we be living in. Just say it's a hyper-local instant messaging app, because any half woke individual will know that nothing on the internet is anonymous really anymore. A percentage of all our internet activity is sitting on a rack somewhere in the Utah desert.

Get over it.

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Re:Show HN: Anonymous messaging with a 1km radius by ItsDeathball on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:04PM (#12809357)

There is a difference between the NSA being able to trace your identity vs. a profit-driven corporation being able to connect your identity to your online speech, location, and contacts. The first is governed by due process and need-to-know, the second is essentially public knowledge if the ad-tech revenue is sufficiently tempting.

Even in a pseudonymous environment where the venue operator presumably knows who you are (like HN), the assumption that other users cannot easily trace your words to your IRL identity reduces friction in communication. Environments where everyone publicly posts under their real identity, with those posts retained forever, tend towards low-information social signaling.

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Re:Show HN: Anonymous messaging with a 1km radius by brokenmachine on Thursday October 27, 2016 @07:03PM (#12811214)

> NSA -- due process and need-to-know

Lol. Have you read the news in the last 30 years?

I do agree somewhat with your point though.

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