. >> he wrote under a pseudonym for a while. >> his critics like to say that boz is all buzz. the writing itself was very physically exhausting. he wrote like a maniac. he had this arduous writing routine where he would wrote from 9:00 until 2:00 every day. he was bubbling over with the enthusiasm of his characters. he would go walk for as many hours as he had written. there is something physical on the page for him. there is this wonderful story about how fast he was writing. he was barely ahead of his readers. he runs out -- and dickens rushed everywhere. people often were taken back. when he was writing copperfield, he rushed out to buy a new ream of paper. he stopped to buy his stationery and there was a woman waiting for the next number of copperfield. she was waiting for the number that he was about to write. he had to rush home and write for her. >> robert, you said that he used his pen like someone scratching an incurable itch. >> that is absolutely right. he needed to write. i think it is largely because he saw the act of writing and the act of his hand moving across

. >> pseudonymity is critical online.or tumbler, for example it is a very popular and active community. it is popular with the community and minority groups. it is based on a culture of pseudonymity. it is a reverse of what people are doing. twitter is seen as a private network, limited and actually very accurately -- actively controlled. facebook is the is global. everyone you have ever met is on facebook full. the studies i have seen on teens suggests that they do care about privacy. they care passionately about privacy. for a teenager privacy is about hiding information from your parents. that is the main issue. it is a question of control. it is very important. the most dangerous thing that i have seen in terms of security behavior is password sharing is seen as a sign of intimacy. that is the weight that you know to 10th graders really care about each other, they share their passwords. that is a very dangerous path to see enforced. we hope that like many of the things we do with teenagers, that ends. >> many teenager

you have the state of georgia saying no one can use the internet under a pseudonym. thankfully the state decided, georgia, you don't own the internet or run the show here, so just chill out. and then going alongside this history, we've got the history of cryptography. but it's a fascinating history of how basically cryptographic technology was liberated from the few organizations that had access to it. mainly because it was used as a military tool. you have the public now able to conceal their messages, digital messages, and mainly this happened because there was an economic reason, banks needed to be able to secure financial data and then over time it got to the point where the everyman, provided that he has the tech savvy, can now use this information, this technology to conceal their information. so, today a lot of people in very powerful positions are basically saying, why do we need privacy? i think this is really concerning. here's a guy, this is a very super journalist who says, if you're not a pedophile, you don't need privacy. he's never seen anyone using pr

it was a pseudonym, the site was about two years old back then and had really taken off in politicales, the guy who ran it had great sources and unmatched institutional knowledge. now he wanted to go main stream and wanted a real reporter, someone with a real name to put on the site to do real reporting, to be accountable in real life. i had my interview there, i was staying with my aunt and uncle. my little cousin helped me set up aol messenger, he offered me the job, it paid almost nothing, there were no benefits, and i didn't hesitate to say yes. and something i never regretted. for the next three years i lived and breathed new jersey politics, lived and breathed new jersey and loved it. i didn't cover it out of the state house, i covered the county bosses, the turf wars, the machine battles, that is where the real action and real decisions were, where every decision that mattered was made. every state is unique, but they don't play politics like they do in new jersey. i tell everybody i got a master's degree in practical politics. when i started that job, wally helped tell who pe

but mohammed escapes from the area and under a pseudonym uploads the video to youtube. >> if i hadn'tone what i did, nobody would have known what happened. even if i had said this and this happened, nobody would have believed it. >> the blue bra woman, as she becomes known, survives the attack but is never identified. the images of her beating provoke outrage and appear in newspapers around the globe. her story also sparks widespread condemnation of the egyptian military. in the end the ability of ordinary citizens to upload their videos and share them with a global audience is one of the most powerful tools of the arab spring. >> before we had access to the internet, before we had the ability to upload these videos, you had to somehow be able to gain access to the media, to the regime. and so the people who most benefited from the internet or video are the most marginalized because what it's done for them is it's allowed them to say i count. and when all these is unite together against the regime, that's when you know the revolution succeeds. because for the longest time the regime h

discovered in the course of doing the work on this book that she wrote about under a half dozen pseudonyms and one was a women named julia jerome, who was the black ann landers of harlem. here's whites, josephine skylar, writing relationship advice columns as a black woman. that's active. pen name passing at another form of passing also engaged in by josephine skylar, and it is, for some people, a way of experiencing a kind of freedom about which they are a little uneasy because when you're engaging in pen name passing, you don't answer face-to-face questions, so i think about it as my're name is woodrow passing, a way of trying on identities, trying them on, taking them off, trying another one on. >> in a very safe context. >> in a very safe context, but in a moment when playing around with being a whole bunch of people across gender and race lines was not only tolerated, but encouraged. >> two of the male equivalents in my book that are interesting are the founder of the first black niewch -- newspaper in new orleans, quotes, never sought to deny the rumor that i was black. interestingly

immigration bill knowing that the president can and very likely would waive any part or all of it as pseudonym, aren't you in a legislative branch, you're fighting in washington -- >> yes, i hear it all the time. i'm sure the lack of trust and the disgust that goes on there is high on all ends. the bottom line is, you have 11 million people, george. and what we have said, i'd rather those people pay their fine, get in the back of the line, learn english, pay taxes. they're using the system anyway. deport the people that come here illegally and commit a crime on top of that. but i know the purists, basically, they got here illegally, ship them back out, that's not a reality that we're going to be facing and we've got to do something. >> all right, senator, thanks so much for your time on "center seat." i really appreciate it. that's it for the panel. stay tuned for an uplifting holiday moment. farmer: hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer. and our giant idaho potato truck is still missing. so my dog and i we're going to go find it. it's out there somewhere spreading the good word about idaho potato

i have a friend who wrote for the political blog for some time under the pseudonym and spent over a yeartalking about the seedy underbelly of the lobbying industry in washington, d.c., cultivated a rabid following. and basically aye as soon as they found out she was a woman, immediately turned on her. her comment section became a land full of people calling her fat and ugly and a pig. basically something that would never happen to a man because men are valued more in our society on their ideas that they bring to the table and women are valued based on their looks. i think that to say that this is something that we no longer have to deal with is a position that can only be driven by privilege and ignorance. the examples here are kind of like the godfathers of the unanimous group. -- the anonymous group. establishment. he also wrote an essay about how the starving irish would eat their children as a way of using satire to attack the governing ways of the english people. that obviously would have gotten him killed or put in jail for life. had those sentiments been associated with his real n

popular particularly among counterculture and minority groups, is popular and ofbased on a culture pseudonymity, a reverse of what people are doing. twitter is seen as a private network, limited and very actively controlled drive c settings heard whereas facebook is seen as a popular global everyone you have ever met gets on facebook. the fascinating studies i've seen on teens show that they really do care about privacy. they care passionately about privacy, for a teenager, privacy is about hiding information from the parents. so that is the main issue and it is a question of control. , the most dangerous thing that i have seen in terms of security behavior is password sharing is seen as a sign of intimacy. that 2/10-t you know graders care about each other is that they share their passwords. that is a very dangerous habit. one hopes that like many of the things we do and we are teenagers it is grown out of. teens, itsurvey of says that they have shared their password with someone other than the parent. behaviors that might not be protecting that identity. tonow it is your opportunity quiz thes

he ran an anonymous, under a pseudonym, he ran a political website. christie was considered to be one of those who may have leaked him a story from time to time, and they grew up in the same town and they had the same roots. i see him, though, as sort of in the outer inner circle. he's not necessarily one of the half dozen, dozen people that have christie's ear at all times. he's sort of at that next level, somebody he trusted enough to put in this job. he was put in this job at the port authority to sort of be his eyes and ears there. but the next step, really, and what democrats are looking for is to see if anybody in that inner circle of christie maybe sent an order to wildstein to do this traffic study. and we're hopefully going to find that out sooner than later. >> does it say something about chris christie's character or the way he's conducting himself as governor that it would be even remotely plausible that the reason he would shut down, you know, the george washington -- well, essentially shut down the majority of the george washington bridg

>> rose: he wrote under a pseudonym for a while? >> yes, and his critics like to say baz is all buzz. one of the things, too, about -- i t writing itself was very performive the, physically exhausting. he wrote like a maniac. he had this arduous writing routine where he would write from 9 o'clock to 2:00 everyday and he would be so bubbling over with the enthusiasm of his characters and the imaginative world he created that he would go walk for as many hours as he had written and i think's something really physical on the page for him, too, and there's a wonderful story about -- think about how fast he's writing. he's writing for serial publication, barely ahead of his readers, a wonderful story where he rushes out -- he rushed every bounded up and down the street. if you were fwizally with him you would be taken aback. longfellow said he reminded him of dick swiveler. he rushed out to by a new ream of paper because he needed to take the story further along and he got to the book seller shop to buy his stationery and there was a wom

is aounder of bitcoin pseudonym. it might be an actual person. tonight i'm going to at webster hall and i will meet a bunch of people who are literally exchanging bitcoins on their phones for actual cash or other goods and services. >> that is where it gets interesting. what is the community like? >> the community i have been hanging out with his fantastic. very helpful, not rude, incredibly intelligent. many people now are asking me, how do i get bitcoin or what should i do? the first thing you should do is research it. obviously, one bitcoin is almost a thousand dollars. you can buy smaller chunks. a few cents.buy it is the kind of thing you should know what you're getting into. then you have read about it, read it is a good place to go. you have somebody's places to educate yourself and after that, or you can get into it like i did. no education. feel like there is enough liquidity that you wanted to get out of the bitcoin market altogether, right now i'm a you could, or would it be as difficult to sell as it was for you to buy? >> well, espec

discovered in the course of doing the work on this book that she wrote about under a half dozen pseudonyms and one was a women named julia jerome, who was the black ann landers of harlem. here's whites, josephine skylar, writing relationship advice columns as a black woman. that's active. pen name passing at another form of passing also engaged in by josephine skylar, and it is, for some people, a way of experiencing a kind of freedom about which they are a little uneasy because when you're engaging in pen name passing, you don't answer face-to-face questions, so i think about it as my're name is woodrow passing, a way of trying on identities, trying them on, taking them off, trying another one on. >> in a very safe context. >> in a very safe context, but in a moment when playing around with being a whole bunch of people across gender and race lines was not only tolerated, but encouraged. >> two of the male equivalents in my book that are interesting are the founder of the first black niewch -- newspaper in new orleans, quotes, never sought to deny the rumor that i was black. interestingly

cycle as well is that parties are operating basically under a different name come almost like a pseudonym. you see this guy holsinger, the wall street private equity guy that he and others are putting together millions of dollars to basically be a proxy for the republican party only because they understand the antipathy with which the party is greeted or the favorite candidate is often greeted by restaurants republicans, so they're going to do it in a different name. but i think it will be operating much as the party otherwise would. on the democrat side, you see something similar at the state legislative level the cycle. one of the largest is super packs is basically devoted to getting democrats elected at the state level so there's not another districting debacle for democrats like there was after 2010. as a supercorporated pack, operates as a super pack, but isaac we just party operatives who have migrated over as the super pacs who are acting as proxies for the party. so maybe they won't be as powerful as we knew them, but i think it will be powerful and are different guise. think and

i discovered in the course of doing the work on this book is it not to strike under one are to pseudonymser about half a dozen. so here's white, josephine, bill scanlon writing relationship advice columns as a black woman. that is active passing. >> pen name passing. >> pen name passing his another version of passing also engaged in -- by josephine gun bill scanlon. it is for some people away up experiencing a kind of freedom about which they are a little uneasy. when you are engaging in been named passing you don't necessarily have to answer face-to-face questions. so i think about it is my of demand for pen name passing is what repressing which used to say it is a way of trying nonentities, trying them on, taking them off, trying and a difference. >> in a very safe context. >> a very safe context. but adding moments when playing around with being a whole bunch of different people a question their release lines was not only tolerated but encouraged. >> two of them male equivalents along those lines were in the first to fund the founder of the first black newspaper in newman's and ms. lee

guy who ran it went by the pseudonym wally edge. new jersey governor from a long time ago. he knew he had a good thing, he wanted to go more mainstream with it, so wanted a real reporter to do real reporting, to have a real name on the site, someone to answer for in real time, in real life. so i applied for the job, not knowing anything about new jersey, or who wally might be. but i was hungry and desperate and i pretty much poured my heart out to wally in an e-mail and got the job. and i never regretted it. he offered to share his identity with me, but i refused, and knew everyone would be asking me who he was and i wanted to be able to tell them with a straight face i didn't know. he helped to show me the ropes, told me who the key players were, filled in the back stories, sent me suggested stories, always done on instant messenger, of course. mostly, though, wally gave me autonomy. i picked it up fast, learned what i wanted to cover, how to cover it, developed my own style, my own voice. i didn't cover politics out of the state h

being made in a business that never existed and could never exist headed by an individual using a pseudonym due to a record of importing counterfeit products. it noted the participants may use the program as a tool to channel or a channel for money laundering, tax evasion or other illicit financial activity. this type of activity was aided by the fact that known criminals are not statutorily prohibited from owning, managing or recruiting regional centers. we just reauthorized that. this national security staff draft reviewed also references another interagency review looking at the national security threats associated with eb-5 program stating that the vulnerabilities relating to possible infiltration by foreign operatives are before the n.s.s. and are addressed by the interagency task force. understanding we've only seen a draft of the national security staff's forensic audit and not information about the interagency review of possible infill the nation by terrorist groups or foreign operatives i wrote to susan rice on october 18 requesting that information. she has not addressed any conce

you can print under a pseudonym, and it's very hard for the authorities to figure out who has printed this document and to go and punish them. so you get this fight between the decentralized nature of the media environment and the desire to centralize and control it by governments which we recognize as a phenomenon be of the internet era, but it's actually going on in the 1500s. >> host: tom standage is a best selling author of a history of the world and six glasses and an edible history of humanity are his two latest books, besides writing on the wall which we're talking about now. what's your day job, mr. standage? >> guest: i'm the digital editor at "the economist," so it's my job to work out how we should best be using digital platforms, and part of that is what led to my interest in historical social media. because, essentially, we are returning to the way that things used to work, and "the economist" came out of sort of a culture of coffee sops and clubs -- shops and clubs and discussion. so i think there's a lot we can learn from modern news organizations today by looking at hi

the beauty of the platform is that the abity to have a pseudonym that you can tweet under has enabled speech in countries where political speech is oppressed. >> and changed the world. >> and then of course tha allows some other people to hide behind it and say mean things to people. it's incumbent on us as t operators of the platform to make sure that people, everyone can come to twitter and feel like it's a clean, well lit place and a global town square. >> i tweeted about you this morning. i responded back. i toldy vast number of followers that you were going to tell me something in this interview that you had never told anyone else. >> yeah. >> so don't make me aliar. what is it? >> sometimes at night, i cry. >> what makes you cry? >> the fact that i don't have any srets toell you. >> that's it? you're an open book, aren't you? why don't we end by giving your fellow tweeters real news they can use. what advice would advice would you have? how couldou become a more interesting tweeter? >> it's dependant on the way you speak. 140 characters constraint itself that mes the creativitof