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Why would anyone want to hide that? Not an expert in security, maybe I don't have the mental model.
by aportnoy 8y ago
Why would anyone want to hide that? Not an expert in security, maybe I don't have the mental model.
- insomniacity 8y agoIt's just a way of minimising your footprint. If you google me, and can't find what services I use, it makes it that much harder to try and find a foothold into hacking something, or building up a profile.
- Nadya 8y agoThen you wouldn't be using Keybase if that was part of your threat model - since a significant point of using it is to tie together and prove identities across some popular sites on the net. See: https://keybase.io/nadya https://keybase.io/nadya
- icedchai 8y agoThis is why I use a different username on each site. Some people use the same username on HN, github, reddit, gmail, etc. (and then they complain about internet privacy and being tracked.)