Anonymity Made Easy

Anonymity on the Internet is a heated subject. It's also amazing the cross section of interested parties, too. We have the old-school cypherpunks, and the hacker community on both sides of the law. There are teams of lawyers, and of course, governments everywhere trying to protect the average person's anonymity and privacy. And then we have the average Internet user himself, bombarded with alerts and warnings but is unsure what he should do.

If you ask me, the problem started with Caller ID. All joking aside, this now ubiquitous technology really opened our eyes at the time to the concepts of identity and location. Fast forward past all the war-dialing and the insecure, open networks of yesteryear. With pervasive broadband access, one's IP address is virtually his Caller ID. It begs the question: is anonymous Internet usage even possible? The answer of course is, it depends.