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How does one prevent the use of real names among pseudonyms, pray tell? Pseudonyms, after all, are fiction by design.
by pavement 9y ago
How does one prevent the use of real names among pseudonyms, pray tell? Pseudonyms, after all, are fiction by design.
- Someone 9y agoGenerate a user name for the user. One can do that such that the probability of the generated name matching that of the user essentially zero. For example, a SHA-256 hash, hex printed, is highly unlikely to match a real name, and even if it does, it likely has a less than a billion chance of being the name of the person you give it to. If you limit yourself to three-part 'normal' names, there may be some matches, but if everybody knows user names are doled out randomly, I don't think that matters. For the Facebooks of the world, I doubt using pseudonyms matters, though, as they will soon discover who's behind each pseudonym, even if a third party assigned them, if only because your alias will be in the address book of your friends.