The intent behind this tool seems good, but I don't think it's a good idea. To actually anonymize data requires semantic understanding of that data and an understanding of what sort of data, harmless by itself, is transmuted into identifying data when provided in the context of other otherwise harmless data.
This tool doesn't help you with any of that. It seems to be a glorified awk script. My concern is that helping the user with the easiest part of anonymizing data stands to encourage the user to go full steam ahead without slowing down to stop and think very carefully about what they're doing.
This tool doesn't help you with any of that. It seems to be a glorified awk script. My concern is that helping the user with the easiest part of anonymizing data stands to encourage the user to go full steam ahead without slowing down to stop and think very carefully about what they're doing.