It is good
if that will be the case. However the power of blogging is now beginning to be
used for black propaganda. In what sense? Take the following instances: There
are individuals who are using blogs to exercise their political rights by
revealing some horrible expose about certain federal officials that generates
personal revenues from a government-funded infrastructure project.
The point
here is anyone can actually make a blog without any censorship that will
prevent him to post what he wants to post. Much worse, the identity of the
blogger is at great risk. What if that federal official founds out your real
identity and will make way to eliminate you out of his way? Not only your
identity is at stake, but also your life as well.
But the
above-mentioned concerns should not prevent you from writing blogs especially
if you have good intentions in doing so. Instead, you should be inspired to
keep your blog private or accessible only on particular trusted individuals.
This article
will show the simplest precaution you can take on how to maintain your personal
privacy so that you can still express yourself without facing worse or even
fatal consequences. If followed correctly, these precautions can save you from
the consequences and from embarrassment or just from plain weirdness in front
of your friends and co-workers.
Blog
Anonymously
The safest
way to express yourself especially when your blog contains uncensored or weird
items is to blog anonymously. It is just like writing a poem and taking the
“Anonymous” as your author’s name. However, being anonymous in a blog is not
just as easy as you might think.
For
instance, you want to make a blog that tackles your terrible working
environment in your company without risking your boss or co-workers discovering
that you are eventually writing about them. Here are some of the techniques and
technologies you can use to make it hard for anyone to trace your uncensored
blog back to you.
Avoid
Mentioning Exact Details about your Blog’s Subject
If you will
be creating a blog about your work, never give exact details that will pinpoint
directly to your workplace. Details such as where your company is located, how
many employees are there, and the specific work it offers should not be
revealed. Be generalize in everything that you will place in your blog.
Use
Pseudonym to Hide your Identity
Obviously,
you need a pseudonym to hide your real identity. However, you need to use
pseudonyms that are not related to any information about yourself. For
instance, do not use pseudonyms that contain the jumbled letters of your name
or jumbled numbers of your birthday. One small personal detail can give your
identity away.
Use
Anonymizing Technologies
If you are
still uncertain of the first two techniques, there are several technical
solutions you can use to keep your identity anonymous.
- Invisiblog- a web service that offers anonymous blog hosting for free. You can create blogs without giving out your real name. Even service administrators do not have access to your name as well
- Tor- it is an anonymous network that routes your Internet traffic through a so-called an overlay network that hides your Internet provider address. It makes hard for anyone to follow the path your data takes.
- Anonymizer- it works as the same as Tor, only that it hides your IP address from the services hosting your blog.
By just
following the techniques and technologies suggested in this article, you can
now blog without fearing that your real identity will be revealed.
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