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U.S federal investigators to collect private records of three Twitter users

• dpres 15y ago
  a sad day for internet users indeed
• darksaga 15y ago
  Another great reason to protect your online identity. I don't use any of my real information on any of the social media sites I use simply for this reason. Had these people taken better steps to conceal their identities, they wouldn't be in the jam they are now. Live and learn I guess.
  • brador 15y ago
    Your location is linked to your IP, your IP is linked to the identities. You can't hide.
    • there 15y ago
      https://www.torproject.org/ https://www.torproject.org/
      • brador 15y ago
        It's cute that you still think you can hide behind proxies.
• TDL 15y ago
  People can only escalate the cost of having their identities uncovered. I don't believe it's possible to be completely anonymous. Of course, when the people who want to know about you have no economic limitations (i.e. governments or the odd billionaire), you will eventually be found out.
• deleted 15y ago
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• nomdeplume 15y ago
  ALESSANDRO ACQUISTI gave a cool talk at the 2011 BlackHat presenting his research findings which indicate that by taking a picture of your face, that picture can be correlated with your facebook profile, which can be used to take simply your birthday, and using that information, using a computer to guess your social security number with significant accuracy compared to random. here is video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQ7Th9L5ss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQ7Th9L5ss