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One way this manifests is in online profiles. You can have a professional blog, where you discuss professional things like how you squashed an annoying software

One way this manifests is in online profiles. You can have a professional blog, where you discuss professional things like how you squashed an annoying software bug or a little-known quirk of your favorite language. The purpose of this is to bolster your career prospects, although there can be sub-goals like forcing yourself to learn a new thing. And you can have a personal account where you anonymously discuss things that are important to you. Maybe some of these things will irritate some people. Most opinions that aren’t completely banal will. And the two can never touch.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
Here's to hoping mine here stays anonymous
- jarsin 2y ago
  I didn't save the comment but a long time ago I saw an account saying that there were people in google who could dox their coworkers on hacker news. When you click threads its shows username in the url, so if you access at work someone could figure out who you are.
  - 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
    Oh yeah I don't log in to any personal accounts on my work PCs I think if some of my former coworkers saw my comments they might catch me, and a GPA certainly could, but in general a stranger would need to put in more than a few dollars of effort to get me
  - janalsncm 2y ago
    What do you mean? HN uses SSL so my understanding is the network just sees requests to HN from your device. Of course if you’re logged in on a work device that’s a different story. Also I suppose side channel attacks are possible but it really depends on what your threat vector is.
    - jarsin 2y ago
      My bad you're correct. My impression was they were implying it had something to do from within their setup at work. Should have left my comment at that.
datadrivenangel 2y ago
And then your opsec fails and the two touch.
- shrimp_emoji 2y ago
  And then it blows up! https://youtu.be/uPG3YMcSvzo https://youtu.be/uPG3YMcSvzo
dakiol 2y ago
The problem usually lies in the intersection: you want to write about an important work topic (management, broken tech interviews).
- janalsncm 2y ago
  It’s going to be really juicy when Blind is hacked one day.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago

Here's to hoping mine here stays anonymous

jarsin 2y ago
I didn't save the comment but a long time ago I saw an account saying that there were people in google who could dox their coworkers on hacker news. When you click threads its shows username in the url, so if you access at work someone could figure out who you are.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
  Oh yeah I don't log in to any personal accounts on my work PCs I think if some of my former coworkers saw my comments they might catch me, and a GPA certainly could, but in general a stranger would need to put in more than a few dollars of effort to get me
- janalsncm 2y ago
  What do you mean? HN uses SSL so my understanding is the network just sees requests to HN from your device. Of course if you’re logged in on a work device that’s a different story. Also I suppose side channel attacks are possible but it really depends on what your threat vector is.
  - jarsin 2y ago
    My bad you're correct. My impression was they were implying it had something to do from within their setup at work. Should have left my comment at that.

datadrivenangel 2y ago

And then your opsec fails and the two touch.

shrimp_emoji 2y ago
And then it blows up! https://youtu.be/uPG3YMcSvzo https://youtu.be/uPG3YMcSvzo

dakiol 2y ago

The problem usually lies in the intersection: you want to write about an important work topic (management, broken tech interviews).

janalsncm 2y ago
It’s going to be really juicy when Blind is hacked one day.