Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC...
by walterbell on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:46AM
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How about the term "unauthenticated", which is well understood for HTTP requests?
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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC...
by perenzo on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:56AM
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Well, IMO the definition of the word "anonymous" still fits how personal information is handled in Briefing: "Anonymity describes situations where the acting person's name is unknown" [1] And this is true regarding the Briefing service.
Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC...
by inanutshellus on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:46AM
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Heh, well you cherry-picked there. It goes on to say ". The important idea here is that a person be non-identifiable, unreachable, or untrackable."
Regardless, it's Wikipedia, that definition ought to be fixed to say "identity" rather than "name".
Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC...
by walterbell on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:03AM
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For online transactions, "name" has been generalized to PII (Personally Identifiable Information) from which name can often be derived.
Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC...
by asjw on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:39AM
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An anonymous user is precisely the one who hasn't provided authentication credentials
> Anonymous User is any user who accesses network resources without providing a username or password.
Se anonymous is correct in this context