[NetBehaviour] Real names, real problems: Pseudonymity under siege

[marc garrett]

Real names, real problems: Pseudonymity under siege

Pseudonymity, part of Net culture since its early beginnings, may become 
a quaint relic of the early Internet.

By Dan Tynan,

Elsa S. is leading a double life. By day, she's an attorney with a small 
Internet company. At night, she slips into a form-fitting latex catsuit 
and pursues her other life as fetishist. For several years she published 
a popular podcast on the topic.

So it's not surprising that Elsa maintains two very public – but very 
different – personae online. Some of her vanilla friends and colleagues 
know about her kink identity; some don't. That's fine with Elsa, so long 
as she can control who knows what.

more…
http://www.itworld.com/security/373319/real-names-real-problems-pseudonymity-under-siege