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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @07:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @07:28AM (#163125)

    Then make an account with your full real name and address. Just because you are afraid of something does not mean you should not say anything.

    I am a security guy, aside from principles I am a prime spear phishing target. No way am I going to risk giving anyone any information about me, even something as simple as my preferred sentence structure can be valuable. I know first hand just how clever people can leverage tiny snippets of someone's life into incredible disasters.

  • (Score: 1) by Pseudonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @02:35PM

    by Pseudonymous Coward (4624) on Friday March 27 2015, @02:35PM (#163192)

    Then make an account with your full real name and address.

    I think I'll pass. There's literally no reason to put your own personal information out there for the world to see.

    No way am I going to risk giving anyone any information about me,

    Neither am I.

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    I think you either misinterpreted my reply and thought I was against preserving anonymity on the Internet or replied to the wrong post.
    As a long time user of anonymous image boards I can assure you I am not against anonymity at all.

    I've seen first hand just how crafty people can be trying to figure out someone's personal information.
    Did you know Skype embeds the account name in the video call screenshots when you use Skype's built-in screenshotting tool?

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 29 2015, @04:58PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 29 2015, @04:58PM (#163861) Journal

    If you are a security guy, you should know well how to get a throw-away email address and use that to create an account on SoylentNews (over TOR if you are extra-paranoid). Note that apart from a (freely chosen) user name and an email address (which you don't need to show publicly), you are not forced to give any information.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.