I think the main thing that scares me about this is how just being a prominent (in terms of garnering attention) open-source hacker seems to give people the rig

I think the main thing that scares me about this is how just being a prominent (in terms of garnering attention) open-source hacker seems to give people the right to pry into your privacy and reveal your personal information to the world. It's ironic that in _why's quest to disappear he permanently implanted his real identity in web folklore instead of quietly fading away.