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> On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity. Beware, in some cases uncommon or unique anonymization techniques may make you
by Cpoll 3y ago
> On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.
Beware, in some cases uncommon or unique anonymization techniques may make you _easier_ to de-anonymize.
- Llamamoe 3y agoEasier to pinpoint as unique, sure, but de-anonymize? How?
- Cpoll 3y agoI probably should have just said "cross-reference," but here's a hand-wavy scenario. The gist is, the more information you have on a persona, the more you can filter out identity candidates. So, for example, if you have unique anonymous accounts for multiple online communities but use an identifiable "anonymization" scheme (and with the right heuristics and AI "magic" this need not be a targeted attack), I can correlate and build a profile on you: Military history enthusiast, knife owner, lives in Maine, Boston U alumni, class of 2001, active hours imply working 9-5, age 39, etc. Which is probably enough to compare against public records, leaked data, whatever, to pinpoint a single individual.