I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s useful for what you intend it to do, anonymous whistleblowing.<p>I trust nobody on the internet but especially if they are anonymous.<p>If I tell you that Paul Graham loves to torture kitten, why would you believe me unless I say it under my real name (and have some kind of proof) ? It would be too easy to libel anybody you don&#x27;t like.<p>Snowden understood that, and he had much more to loose than HN or SV creds or even his job. If he had remained anonymous, people would still doubt his revelations.