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If you own property there is not obscurity or hiding from the system. Your name is on the dead and on view for the public (especially with the new law recently

• nostrademons 6y ago
  Right, but the point is to avoid people caring about you, not people knowing about you. It's fine to have your name out there and on some public records about where you live if everybody is indifferent to your existence. It gets dicey when you owe somebody money, and they owe somebody else money, and then when there's not enough money to go around they're like "Shoot, where can I find some money? I know, I'll turn the screws on people who already owe me something and just collect what I'm owed." Little details like the precise payback terms of the loan and recourse available tend to get lost when court systems aren't functioning, and people only think "Oh, who owes me money that I can collect from?" (As a side note, this is an important and often-overlooked point about mass surveillance. There's a huge difference between large data-hoovering organizations knowing about you and large organizations caring about you. Most people's best defense against identity theft or blackmail isn't cybersecurity, it's boringness, and the law of large numbers.)