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Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity's World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025

Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.

The 60-year-old man lying on the street, as far as anyone knew, was just a janitor hit by a drunk driver.
There was no mention of it on the local news, no obituary in the morning paper.
His name might have been Anonymous. But it wasn’t. 
His name was Peter Putnam.
He was a physicist who’d hung out with Albert Einstein, John Archibald Wheeler, and Niels Bohr,
and two blocks from the crash, in his run-down apartment, where his partner, Claude, was startled by a scr…

Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

Analysis of Anonymous User Interaction Relationships and Prediction of Advertising Feedback Based on Graph Neural Network
Yanjun Dai, Haoyang Feng, Yuan Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13787

Analysis of Anonymous User Interaction Relationships and Prediction of Advertising Feedback Based on Graph Neural Network
While online advertising is highly dependent on implicit interaction networks of anonymous users for engagement inference, and for the selection and optimization of delivery strategies, existing graph models seldom can capture the multi-scale temporal, semantic and higher-order dependency features of these interaction networks, thus it's hard to describe the complicated patterns of the anonymous behavior. In this paper, we propose Decoupled Temporal-Hierarchical Graph Neural Network (DTH-GNN), …

The Ethics of Generative AI in Anonymous Spaces: A Case Study of 4chan's /pol/ Board
Parth Gaba, Emiliano De Cristofaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14191

The Ethics of Generative AI in Anonymous Spaces: A Case Study of 4chan's /pol/ Board
This paper presents a characterization of AI-generated images shared on 4chan, examining how this anonymous online community is (mis-)using generative image technologies. Through a methodical data collection process, we gathered 900 images from 4chan's /pol/ (Politically Incorrect) board, which included the label "/mwg/" (memetic warfare general), between April and July 2024, identifying 66 unique AI-generated images. The analysis reveals concerning patterns in the use of this technology, with …

La liste des faits donne le tournis... Et la nausée. Il ne fait pas bon être militant de l'environnement en ce moment.
https://reporterre.net/Menaces-degradations-l-ONG-Bloom-harcelee-pour-sa-defense-des-oceans

Menaces, dégradations : l'ONG Bloom harcelée pour sa défense des océans
Dégradations, menaces, désinformation... L'association de protection des océans Bloom subit de nombreuses attaques anonymes. En parallèle, elle est sous pression des lobbies de la pêche industrielle qui l'attaquent en justice.

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: Against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks
Yali Yuan, Kai Xu, Ruolin Ma, Yuchen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13563

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: Against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks
Website Fingerprinting (WF) is an effective tool for regulating and governing the dark web. However, its performance can be significantly degraded by backdoor poisoning attacks in practical deployments. This paper aims to address the problem of hidden backdoor poisoning attacks faced by Website Fingerprinting attack, and designs a feasible mothed that integrates unlearning technology to realize detection of automatic poisoned points and complete removal of its destructive effects, requiring onl…

Toward Practical Privacy in XR: Empirical Analysis of Multimodal Anonymization Mechanisms
Azim Ibragimov, Ethan Wilson, Kevin R. B. Butler, Eakta Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13882

Toward Practical Privacy in XR: Empirical Analysis of Multimodal Anonymization Mechanisms
As extended reality (XR) systems become increasingly immersive and sensor-rich, they enable the collection of fine-grained behavioral signals such as eye and body telemetry. These signals support personalized and responsive experiences and may also contain unique patterns that can be linked back to individuals. However, privacy mechanisms that naively pair unimodal mechanisms (e.g., independently apply privacy mechanisms for eye and body privatization) are often ineffective at preventing re-ide…

An excellent episode of the #DarknetDiaries: 158: @…
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MalwareTech – Darknet Diaries
MalwareTech was an anonymous security researcher, until he accidentally stopped WannaCry, one of the largest ransomware attacks in history. That single act of heroism shattered his anonymity and pulled him into a world he never expected.

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Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

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