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It could help further obfuscate the usage patterns of the underlying actors. If you change the parameters, the party doing search and correlations needs to take
by zdkl 10y ago
It could help further obfuscate the usage patterns of the underlying actors. If you change the parameters, the party doing search and correlations needs to take that into account and expend more effort.
Basically, you want to make them work harder to ascertain any bit of information
- joncrocks 10y agoI think I'd better describe it as helping in the case of identifying information being correlated over time. Even if you've got good OpSec, you may reveal things about yourself accidentally over time, and with a long-lived nickname, this could potentially narrow down your identity. Things like colloquialisms/references that are culturally specific/indicative, or reference to things that indicate things about yourself by association. This could potentially be counteracted by analysing usage patterns/language patterns to try and associate a set of nicknames as 'the same person', but it's probably hard-ish to do if communication is terse + sparse.
- dsfyu404ed 10y agoThis. You leak little personal details about who you are. Word usage analysis could be used to track a member across multiple usernames but frequent username changes is just part of defense in depth.