The response shed light on the difficulty of presenting a united front while maintaining a dispersed and pseudonymous hierarchy.
"There's no way I won't make a million dollars, " says the entrepreneur, David (one-name sources throughout this story are pseudonymous).
But its techniques--finding pseudonymous accounts based on links to known e-mail addresses--yield much more dirt than does a simple Google search.
The biggest complaint the company gets isn't that it doesn't allow anonymous, or pseudonymous users, but quite the opposite, says Mr. Allan.
Some individuals who uploaded films using pseudonymous accounts wrote in the video description box on the Web page that they don't own a copyright.
So they can figure out that your (real-name) Facebook account, and your pseudonymous OkCupid, Forbes, and RottenTomatoes accounts all belong to the same person.
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Additionally, while Bitcoin addresses are pseudonymous, all transactions happen in public.
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Mindful of this dynamic, InterviewStreet moved the bulk of its contests to a website called HackerRank, where most entrants log in with pseudonymous user names.
The service will also be marketed by these ISPs, who will sell the pseudonymous digital identities to users, along with the relevant free software for downloading.
Here he's earnestly ordinary as mild-mannered Walter Sparrow, a pet detective (well, OK, an "animal control officer") who becomes obsessed with a pseudonymous self-published novel, "The Number 23, " by Topsy Kretts.
As promised, Backtrace Security, a group of pseudonymous hackers formerly associated with the hacker collective Anonymous, published files earlier this week on BacktraceSecurity.com containing what the group says are identifying details and communication records of members of Anonymous.
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