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Not related to Tor, but food for thought regarding anonymity... Quite a few people online wear multiple masks. You're that wonderful professional on linkedin w
by fleddr 4y ago
Not related to Tor, but food for thought regarding anonymity...
Quite a few people online wear multiple masks. You're that wonderful professional on linkedin with your full name on display, the ideal grandson on Facebook, but also a Twitter shitposter and toxic gamer under the disguise of anonymity.
Its worthwhile to consider the anonymous version of you. I'm imagining that it won't take long before a few dots can be connected. Not by the FBI, surely they already can, but as a public service. AI reverse engineering your clicks, writing style, whatever other input.
Meaning, if there's a "socially less accepted" version of you, do worry. It seems inevitable to me that they ultimately get linked back to your true identity.
And to be clear, this isn't just about a burner account to let off some steam. Anonymity is also used to freely criticize employers, political ideas, the establishment in authoritarian regimes, and it's an essential defense for people/groups that are often the target of harassment.
To illustrate how easily this can go wrong, recently a giant Twitter dump resurfaced. It turned out to be a cleaned up 2 year old file, but it did send a lot of people into a moral panic. Specifically, some made the mistake to link their real identifiable email address to their burner account.
The bottom line is that anonymity is fragile and unlikely to last.