and the net should be no different. It not be hard to (either technically or politically) and what we need is a politician with the balls to do it! James Picone : 14 Nov 2012 5:38:58pm Wow. There's nothing stopping you walking around wearing a mask if you want. You have the right to as much anonymity as you can muster in real life just as much as on the internet, and for the perfectly sensible reason "Why not?". Plus, in the arms race between people seeking anonymity and governments trying to unmask the anonymous, it turns out that moderate effort to be anonymous requires governments to exert massive amounts of effort and become rather totalitarian to unmask. If you start doing your browsing via the Tor network, either the Australian government would find it extremely difficult to figure out what you sent and to where you sent it. And no matter how much the government monitored and logged what you were sending through the network, it would not be very hard to slip information through to somebody in a less repressive country via steganographic techniques - even something as simple as encoding data in the low bit of an image would be highly unlikely to be detected. Mycal : 14 Nov 2012 7:21:37pm "There's nothing stopping you walking around wearing a mask if you want." That is not universal, try it in bank or when pulled over by Police for driving offenses. "You have the right to as much