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FYI: All shared maps are trivially enumerable. Probably don't use your home address. https://oalley.net/map/b4x https://oalley.net/map/b4x https://oalley.net/
by ggggtez 8y ago
FYI: All shared maps are trivially enumerable.
Probably don't use your home address.
https://oalley.net/map/b4x https://oalley.net/map/b4x
https://oalley.net/map/b4y https://oalley.net/map/b4y
https://oalley.net/map/b4z https://oalley.net/map/b4z
- alonmower 8y agoIs there really risk here? The existence of one's address is pretty public
- theobon 8y agoThe existence of an address is public. The relationship between an address and a hacker news account is typically not public. Providing this link can make doxxing significantly easier.
- JimDabell 8y agoSure, but the maps being enumerable doesn't reveal a relationship between an address and a specific Hacker News account. The maps being enumerable doesn't seem to be noteworthy.
- Kiro 8y agoLet's say you write that you are from Seattle in your profile and post a comment immediately after. Someone could check the recent maps that start in Seattle.
- kwhitefoot 8y ago> don't use your home address. Why not? Addresses are public information anyway.
- barrkel 8y agoEvery home has somebody living there. Unless you can connect it to an identity, and have a particular reason to target that identity, it's not much of a reveal.
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- lucb1e 8y agoUntil traffic drops off and you can correlate usernames (someone tweeting/commenting/whatever about this service) with a narrow selection of maps that were recently made. Or even under HN traffic, if someone mentions to have used it, you now have a few hundred or maybe thousand potential locations for a username instead of the entire western world (and even that is an assumption that could be wrong). If you're serious about this, and if the username seriously tries to stay anonymous (as a bunch of people here do), this does have an impact.