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> "So if there was anything I was considering doing where if it became public I would be hurt, I wouldn't do it." So, no online banking of any sort, because if

> "So if there was anything I was considering doing where if it became public I would be hurt, I wouldn't do it." So, no online banking of any sort, because if your account number and passwords became public, that would be bad? No use of credit cards for the same reason? This however is interesting: > "Applicants with very little information available might come to be the ones that employers and schools worry about: what are they trying to keep us from finding out about?" In espionage-thinking, this is a known issue and calls for the creation of a cover story, i.e. spies 'hide in plain sight' by constructing apparently normal lives that raise no red flags even upon extensive background investigations, and conduct all their covert activities using offline channels. Keep on with this and you end up with Gestapo/STASI run societies, in which even family members and neighbors living side by side view one another with distrust and suspicion - because everyone is doing something or other that might be construed as illegal under a system of selective political prosecution. As the head of Stalin's secret police, Lavrentiy Beria, said: "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime."

bee_rider 4y ago
Tangential but it is already the case that if you don’t give up privacy (by opting to have your financial transactions tracked by credit agencies) you’ll be regarded with suspicion by banks and some employers (because your credit score will not be very good). Plus you have to give your PII up to these credit agencies who will completely halfass securing it.
jefftk 4y ago
> So, no online banking of any sort, because if your account number and passwords became public, that would be bad? No use of credit cards for the same reason? No, I do use secrecy there. Defaulting to public is compatible with having a few specific small pieces of information secret (passwords, the pattern on my house keys, the numbers on my credit cards). I don't expect these to remain private long term, for the same reasons I've said above, so we'll eventually need to move away from these as the attacks get cheaper and easier. I already use securitykeys on my most important accounts, credit cards are switching to chips when possible, RFID keys are replacing traditional ones etc; this process is already in progress.

bee_rider 4y ago

Tangential but it is already the case that if you don’t give up privacy (by opting to have your financial transactions tracked by credit agencies) you’ll be regarded with suspicion by banks and some employers (because your credit score will not be very good). Plus you have to give your PII up to these credit agencies who will completely halfass securing it.

jefftk 4y ago

> So, no online banking of any sort, because if your account number and passwords became public, that would be bad? No use of credit cards for the same reason? No, I do use secrecy there. Defaulting to public is compatible with having a few specific small pieces of information secret (passwords, the pattern on my house keys, the numbers on my credit cards). I don't expect these to remain private long term, for the same reasons I've said above, so we'll eventually need to move away from these as the attacks get cheaper and easier. I already use securitykeys on my most important accounts, credit cards are switching to chips when possible, RFID keys are replacing traditional ones etc; this process is already in progress.