The logic of anti-anonymity is simple, dumb, and convinient for goverment organizations. From one hand, it's understandable when the goverment wants more order in still such a new thing for 'em like Internet, but from the other hand, no fanatism is good. Some time ago I've wrote a simpe proxy server in GCC, that's primary task was just cuttin' and removing all the cookie-like crap. And I made it WITHOUT any logging facilities except the MRTG-friendly stats for removed tokens. And I've started it as anonymous proxy. Results were horrible. What about almost a gigabyte of Cookie-headers daily?! This article shows the question good - if you want to stay private - you should have a legal possibility ALWAYS. Without goverment and law barriers. Well done!

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