Hi brian-in-ohio,

The only requirement for posting to HPR is that the show is "of interest to Hackers". (And isn't spam, and meets the licensing terms). There is no requirement to be personally identified on HPR.

While some contributors like myself use their real names, others like yourself use handles instead. I'm sure most of those who use handles do not do so to hide their identity - but some might. 

It's a moot point anyway because we know Bradley M. Kuhn was the author of the show. We don't know who posted it, but I don't particularly care. They could have posted the show under a fake user name and we would never know. There are quite a lot of shows posted that were controversial at the time, and were submitted by a host that never posted again. 

I feel that posting under the Anonymous username is more honest. It alerts the HPR community to the lack of implicit trust that comes with a (fake) real name. (It also means less work for the janitors as we don't need to create new users :-) )

In any event, Hacker Public Radio has long supported, and will continue to support anonymous posts, comments and other forms of interactions. We do this for many reasons, not least of which is that freedom of speech is not always without cost. 

Ken.