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People in the UK are writing their names & mobile numbers down at the door to most restaurants now - just one big long piece of paper that everyone can read. I

People in the UK are writing their names & mobile numbers down at the door to most restaurants now - just one big long piece of paper that everyone can read. I'm sure people say it's important in the abstract, but not in practice, and not right now.

bigiain 6y ago
If it's anything like here in Sydney, people are writing some name and some phone number down. Every woman I know uses a fake name, and most of them are using fake numbers too. Covid risks are _way_ lower here than risks of random creeps misusing names/numbers of women... I'm less affected by those particular risks, but I still use a burner Twilio SMS number and a burner gmail address that doesn't get used for anything else, with plus addressing to help try identify where a leak happened. If that account starts getting spam to nomdeplume+somesmallbar@gmail.com or nomdeplume+someQRcodesigninservice@gmail.com, I might get a smoking gun about who leaked it. If the spammers are cleaning their lists of that well-enough-known email tracking trick and sending enough smtp to make the address a problem to use, I can just walk away from that gmail account and set up a new one. I'm contemplating building an automated system of "rolling 4 week validity email addresses" that I can easily enough work out on-the-spot, perhaps month/week-of-month encoding so I'd use nomdeplume-102+randombar@example.org this week (102 being october 2nd week) and only have the addresses live long enough for contact tracing purposes. Perhaps using something t5hat works the same as gmail's "plus addressing" but different enough that spammers list cleaning tools won't know about it. That'd involve running my own mail server though, and the risks here right now are so low (in the single digit cases per day in a city of 5million people) that I'm more motivated to just lie on the contact forms instead...

bigiain 6y ago

If it's anything like here in Sydney, people are writing some name and some phone number down. Every woman I know uses a fake name, and most of them are using fake numbers too. Covid risks are _way_ lower here than risks of random creeps misusing names/numbers of women... I'm less affected by those particular risks, but I still use a burner Twilio SMS number and a burner gmail address that doesn't get used for anything else, with plus addressing to help try identify where a leak happened. If that account starts getting spam to nomdeplume+somesmallbar@gmail.com or nomdeplume+someQRcodesigninservice@gmail.com, I might get a smoking gun about who leaked it. If the spammers are cleaning their lists of that well-enough-known email tracking trick and sending enough smtp to make the address a problem to use, I can just walk away from that gmail account and set up a new one. I'm contemplating building an automated system of "rolling 4 week validity email addresses" that I can easily enough work out on-the-spot, perhaps month/week-of-month encoding so I'd use nomdeplume-102+randombar@example.org this week (102 being october 2nd week) and only have the addresses live long enough for contact tracing purposes. Perhaps using something t5hat works the same as gmail's "plus addressing" but different enough that spammers list cleaning tools won't know about it. That'd involve running my own mail server though, and the risks here right now are so low (in the single digit cases per day in a city of 5million people) that I'm more motivated to just lie on the contact forms instead...