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that serves no purpose in anonymity whatsoever

• jstarfish 3y ago
  Yes it does. It muddies the waters with false positives.
  • noman-land 3y ago
    Wouldn't this be a true positive?
    • jstarfish 3y ago
      Semantically speaking, I guess so. It's just a proxy address. Maybe it's you, maybe it's someone else with your name. Who can tell? The point is to not be found. People showing up at any address that isn't your actual home address aligns with that goal. Registering it in the same ZIP code is self-doxxing though. It's an innocuous form of synthetic identity fraud. If you really want to be anonymous, do pre-applications for credit cards and utilities in your name at other people's addresses then abandon them. One case I worked had a guy doing this using AirBNB hosts' addresses. His profile had him supposedly living everywhere all at once. This had the benefit of mapping to actual homes instead of The UPS Store when Googled.