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Online women have to deal with this sort of crap routinely. I know a sex worker who was very careful about her online identity. She posted several years ago so

by gcr 4y ago

Online women have to deal with this sort of crap routinely. I know a sex worker who was very careful about her online identity. She posted several years ago some completely innocuous thing, like “looks like I’m going to need a new pair of boots.” From this one tweet, her stalkers were able to cross-reference which city she lived in by looking up historical weather reports for areas that recently had snowfall. They knew that she also was a professor, so they went down the list of female professors in nearby universities until they found a match.

MontyCarloHall 4y ago
If she posted her face online and disclosed that she’s a professor, then she was not at all careful about her online identity.
- pvaldes 4y ago
  Yup, "I'm a sex worker and also a professor" is a troublesome combination of jobs. A recipe for being insta-fired or attracting all kind of troubles.
- gcr 4y ago
  Well, one hidden implication behind your comment could be that women who work sensitive jobs shouldn't reveal their face or their profession online, or else they deserve to be unmasked. When framed that way, maybe you can see why I disagree. I'm reminded of _why the lucky stiff, who was a legendary ruby programmer from 2004ish. As far as I know, he didn't do sex work, but he showed his face at conferences all the time. He was a very private fellow - he would ask people to drop him off at a cafe or a park after outings. When some of his stalkers attempted to unmask him, he left the ruby community (I think for that and other reasons).
waste_monk 4y ago
See also this incident: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234 > The man said he had identified a train station reflected in the singer's eyes in a selfie she posted online. The 26-year-old then waited at the station until he saw his victim and followed her to her home, police said. > He also said he had studied videos the woman shot in her apartment, looking at details such as the placement of curtains and the direction of natural light coming through the window to try to determine exactly which floor she lived on, reports said. There was also that thing with Shia Labeouf's "he will not divide us" campaign (?), where at one point 4chan folk tracked down the physical location based on a webcam view pointed skywards at a flagpole, geolocating it based on the transit times and flight paths of aircraft passing in view (determining the compass direction from the sun setting and rising, I think there was also something about figuring out the altitude from contrail formation?) and comparing it to one of those flightradar type sites.

by gcr 4y ago

MontyCarloHall 4y ago

If she posted her face online and disclosed that she’s a professor, then she was not at all careful about her online identity.

pvaldes 4y ago
Yup, "I'm a sex worker and also a professor" is a troublesome combination of jobs. A recipe for being insta-fired or attracting all kind of troubles.
gcr 4y ago
Well, one hidden implication behind your comment could be that women who work sensitive jobs shouldn't reveal their face or their profession online, or else they deserve to be unmasked. When framed that way, maybe you can see why I disagree. I'm reminded of _why the lucky stiff, who was a legendary ruby programmer from 2004ish. As far as I know, he didn't do sex work, but he showed his face at conferences all the time. He was a very private fellow - he would ask people to drop him off at a cafe or a park after outings. When some of his stalkers attempted to unmask him, he left the ruby community (I think for that and other reasons).

waste_monk 4y ago

See also this incident: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234 > The man said he had identified a train station reflected in the singer's eyes in a selfie she posted online. The 26-year-old then waited at the station until he saw his victim and followed her to her home, police said. > He also said he had studied videos the woman shot in her apartment, looking at details such as the placement of curtains and the direction of natural light coming through the window to try to determine exactly which floor she lived on, reports said. There was also that thing with Shia Labeouf's "he will not divide us" campaign (?), where at one point 4chan folk tracked down the physical location based on a webcam view pointed skywards at a flagpole, geolocating it based on the transit times and flight paths of aircraft passing in view (determining the compass direction from the sun setting and rising, I think there was also something about figuring out the altitude from contrail formation?) and comparing it to one of those flightradar type sites.