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Anonymity is a weak (but better than nothing) solution to this problem.

The stronger solution IMO is "publish what you observed, what you conclude from it, what you think good next steps are, and provide your signature and contact information" and let people openly collaborate and build on each other's work.

Imagine if Linus Torvalds published the first version of Linux anonymously. Would we be in the same spot now as a technology society if collaboration were limited to anonymous, arms-length interactions on public channels?




This makes me think of TrueCrypt, and all sorts of other pieces of software released only under online aliases.




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