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> It's entirely possible that one day many years from now, a prospective employer/insurer/whatever finds such a comment and flags me for it This is why you sho
by sr2 9y ago
> It's entirely possible that one day many years from now, a prospective employer/insurer/whatever finds such a comment and flags me for it
This is why you should use pseudonyms and strive for anonymity. It's trivial to signup to Hackernews under an assumed name, or handle, and start venting on contentious issues. Hackernews might shadow-ban your throwaway account, so you might have to lurk moar and share some interesting links before you can comment without being censored. I know from experience. Last time I checked, HN has no strict policy on multiple accounts and you can do this very easily.
In terms of OPSEC, you obviously shouldn't contaminate your real iden with your anon iden, or contaminate your anon idens with other anon idens. You should also deliberately alter the stylometry of your writing so nobody can link two pieces of text to each other. Anonymouth[0] is my favorite tool for doing just that.
[0]: https://github.com/psal/anonymouth https://github.com/psal/anonymouth
- _jal 9y agoWhat you say is all true, but unfortunately misses the point of the article and discussion. Also, just a note, but you have some interesting tells in your text. 'anon iden' is a phrase I don't recall seeing, at least not very often. You used "it's" correctly, another signal, along with the 'moar' spelling, and a few other shorthand phrases. You might want to start thinking about methods for scrubbing your text if you're actually interested in drawing a line between your personae and you. https://github.com/evllabs/JGAAP https://github.com/evllabs/JGAAP
- wolco 9y agoHe might have already and the personality you see may not be tied to reality
- JetSpiegel 9y agoOur maybe he's counting on that and that's his real persona. Anonception.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- lovich 9y agoTrue, but since everything is saved you only need to fuck up once and now everything can be pointed at you. The asymmetry in effort between staying anonymous and someone de-anonymizing you is getting bigger every day
- DerfNet 9y agoI was recently doxxed on Reddit. Never posted my name, used a unique username, but after 6+ years of posting, someone triangulated the data and successfully found my full name and home address. Even though the user was banned (several times), even though all the posts are now deleted, along with my entire comment and submission history, my username there is now permanently tied to my real name. While it was easy for a human user to doxx me using my comment history, it's even easier for computers, who save everything, no matter how briefly it is posted, to comb through your data and determine who you are. The only way to stay anonymous is to completely avoid ever talking about anything remotely identifying
- lovich 9y agoHell if you are using some program that implements type ahead, they could just identify you with your typing patterns