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匿名出版已死
Anonymous Publishing is Dead
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文章讨论“匿名出版已死”这一命题：作者认为匿名购买和运行 VPS 等环节让真正匿名发布几乎不可行。评论者从实操和记者伦理两方面补充：可用免费平台和公共 Wi-Fi 低成本匿名发布，也要清理媒体元数据；而公开身份、以真实面孔发声有时比匿名文本更有力量。对写作者而言，这是一篇关于署名、发布渠道与风险的讨论。
可以直接用的写作要点
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先明确匿名发布要保护什么：身份、位置还是观点；目标不同，渠道和成本完全不同。
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公开发声时，可把真实身份和一贯立场当作信任资产，让读者支持“一个人”而不只是匿名文本。
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发布图片、视频前先清除元数据和位置信息；渠道再隐蔽，文件本身也可能暴露作者。
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不必为匿名发布自建 VPS；免费博客、pastebin 加公共 Wi-Fi 是低成本方案，但要权衡平台可删除内容的风险。
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匿名发布不必自建 VPS；免费平台加 Tor 也可行，真正风险在媒体元数据而非渠道本身。
作者的大部分问题似乎都出在匿名购买和运行 VPS 上。但何必这么麻烦？要匿名发布，真的需要在自己的 VPS 上跑 Tor 隐藏服务吗？那些可以匿名注册和发帖的免费博客、pastebin 服务呢？你只需要 Tor Browser Bundle 再加一点谨慎，就能在 Tor 安全允许的范围内保持匿名，而且不用花一分钱。当然，当局关掉你发在 Tumblr 上的东西，会比关掉 Tor 隐藏服务容易；但这与“能否匿名发布”是两回事。作者还似乎认为匿名发布图片和视频比匿名发布 ASCII 文本更难。这也许对，但不是他说的原因：只要已有匿名发布文本的渠道，你完全可以把媒体文件用 base64 编码发出去。真正的问题是图片和视频常含大量可能识别作者的熵，比如位置信息；不彻底清洗媒体文件，多少 Tor 技巧都没用。
kijin查看英文原文
Most of the author's problems seem to have to do with purchasing and running a VPS anonymously. But why bother? Do you really need to run your own Tor hidden service on your own VPS in order to publish anonymously? What happened to all the free blogging and pastebin services where you can sign up and/or post anonymously? All you need is Tor Browser Bundle and some extra caution. You can stay as anonymous as Tor's security allows, and no money ever changes hands. Sure, it will be easier for the powers that be to take down something you posted on Tumblr than to take down a Tor hidden service. But that's a completely different matter from publishing anonymously in the first place. The author also seems to think that publishing images and videos anonymously is harder than publishing ASCII text anonymously. This may be right, but not because of the reasons he cites. If you already have a medium where you can publish ASCII text anonymously, nothing stops you from publishing your media in a base64-encoded form. The real problem with publishing images and videos anonymously is that those media files often contain lots of entropy that could help identify the author, such as location information. No amount of Tor trickery will keep you anonymous unless you thoroughly scrub your media files.
记者可选择公开身份、以真实面孔和立场发声；公众更容易支持一个人而非匿名文本。
从记者的角度看，有两种做法。第一种是像作者尝试的那样：想尽办法隐藏身份。这非常费劲，而且可能做不到。第二种是主动站出来：做公开人物，不害怕自己发表的东西；让人知道你是谁、代表什么；利用你的名声。说我乐观也好，但如果你代表一场民粹运动，当权者很难让你闭嘴。事实上，如果事业足够有意义、足够受欢迎，支持它最终对他们也有利；政治游戏就是靠迎合大众取胜。说到底，想当揭丑记者，就不能怕沾泥。我明白可能会有后果，但支持一张面孔远比支持一段匿名文字容易。
tatsuke95查看英文原文
There are two ways to do this from the perspective of a journalist. The first, is to do as the author attempted: that is to find every way possible to hide your identity. It's a lot of work, and maybe impossible. The second is to put yourself out there. Be a public figure, unafraid of what you are publishing. Allow people to know who you are and what you stand for. Use your fame to your advantage. Call me an optimist, but the powers that be will have a tough time keeping you quiet if you represent a populist movement. In fact, it's eventually to their advantage to support the cause if it's meaningful and popular enough; the game of politics is won by catering to the masses. At the end of the day, if you want to be a muckraker you can't be scared to get in the muck. I realize there can be repercussions. But it's far easier to support a face than it is some anonymous text.
匿名发布可用免费平台加公共 Wi-Fi 完成，不必购买 VPS；但要接受平台托管与删除风险。
拜托！随便弄个 WordPress、Blogger 之类的假账号，用公共 Wi-Fi 发帖就行了。他们会免费替你托管，而你几乎无法被追踪。如果要发视频，也用同样办法发到 YouTube 或类似平台。你甚至可以用 Facebook 托管（！），只要伪造邮箱。我真不明白这家伙为什么非要买 VPS 才能发布。
aurelianito查看英文原文
Come on! Just get a fake account in wordpress, blogger or whatever and post using a public wifi. They will do the hosting for you for free and you will be virtually untrackeable. If you need to publish some video, post it on youtube or a clone using the same procedure as before. You can even use facebook for hosting (!) if you fake the email. I really don't get why this guy needs to purchase a VPS to publish.
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