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> which was under directory /home/ringo-ring, which could be traced to a username Ha, my home dir is always called "me" or "and". Try google that.
by est 4y ago
> which was under directory /home/ringo-ring, which could be traced to a username
Ha, my home dir is always called "me" or "and". Try google that.
- pavel_lishin 4y agoPeople might be able to, now!
- counttheforks 4y agoDon't worry, I'm a "me" too.
- thakoppno 4y agoI’ve narrowed it down to the east coast of the US.
- O__________O 4y agoElectron star - seems oddly specific, though maybe not spelling it same way you do.
- est 4y agoyeah that's a regrettable mistake. It was registered in early days, OPSEC wasn't considered then. The Internet was supposed to connect people not hunting people.
- O__________O 4y agoAll good, OpSec is hard, which was point I was trying to make, great you take it seriously, just be little more humble. Everyone slips, only matter of time, either in past or future.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoThis is deep infosec. Instead of security through obscurity, it's security through ubiquity.
- teddyh 4y agoIIRC, on new installations of NeXTSTEP (based on 4.3BSD Unix), the username of the single installed desktop user was "me".
- genewitch 4y agoi like how people are trying to correlate your HN account with - ostensibly - wild /home/ directories. This is why i've recently moved off of this username, going forward. 20 years as genewitch has attached a lot of bad "OPSEC" to this username, and coupled with the fact that i have federal licenses means that people can just google my entire life story. my last name, without any other information, has one tenth of the bits of information that "genewitch" does.
- latchkey 4y agoSmart. Here's how to rename on OSX (might break a lot of tooling, but whatever). https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201548 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201548