Tian: I've always thought the pear of anguish seemed like a particularly nasty device myself. (Incidentally, Wikipedia's information on it seems to have vanished from existence, or at least the current page versions; unfortunately, this seems to be happening a lot lately.

It turns out that the editing process doesn't always improve articles. In fact it looks like eventually it'll reach the point where the two processes are in equilibrium and the overall quality stops increasing, or even begins to decrease as good editors get fed up with going nowhere and leave. Arguably, some areas are already suffering from this.)

I like how they refer to memcached as a "Six Apart open source technology". The reason that it's open source is that it was by Danga, and they released nearly everything as open source, including most of the LiveJournal.com code. (Of course, I have some respect for Siz Apart for keeping nearly everything open source after they bought out Danga.)

I suspect the real reason why they did this was the rising popularity of Wordpress, which is open source, a lot cheaper and doesn't require web hosting that supports Perl CGI...

There's been awareness of this type of technique on Freenet for a while. The general recommendation for the paranoid is not to write anything long on identities you're worried about being traced back to you. Alternatively, do what Cowicide suggests...

(Of course, the people on Freenet who currently have most to fear are the child porn traders, and they can actually follow this advice. If it ever gets used for political dissent in any significant way, this is going to have nasty effects on anonymity.)

The other question is, is it possible to trick the software into thinking a document is written by someone other than the real author, and so misdirect the investigators?