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#+TITLE: Be Anonymous (review)
#+Author: Yann Esposito
#+Date: [2022-02-21]
- tags :: [[id:2351f4cb-85a3-45ca-9bb5-f13a559afcfe][security]] [[id:db44b28a-7d7c-43e1-a77a-a84770a80f13][privacy]]
- source :: https://kg.dev/thoughts/be-anonymous
- hn :: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408236

I just read this blog post which is a classical take on anonymity, just
with a slightly more modern take.
And I like this related comment:


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The article touches on a good point: one mistake and you're out.
It doesn't even have to be your mistake - you didn't choose to put your SSN
out there after all, yet here we are.

This gave me a radical company idea, on the other end of the spectrum: spam
as a service.
Something that'll take your name, email, and other things and put it all
over the internet in questionable and plausibly denial ways.
That way, even when someone is trying to find things out about you, it'll
be hard to find, and easy to deny.
(I'm kidding of course).

-- mindvirus ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408236
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In fact, the problem are just coming.
Now that it will be easier and easier to be attacked by people all other
the world it will be problematic in a few short years.
And thus, this idea of making it almost impossible to really discover your
real personal information will probably be the best way to protect ourselves.

So how would someone implement that?

1. gather all your public account/presence on the Internet.
2. flood the Internet with slightly false information everywhere. Change
   your address slightly, your city, your birth date, your age, your sex,
   the color of your eyes, etc…
3. flood the Internet with different world-view, like change your political
   stance, hmm....

This doesn't look trivial at all.

OK maybe the solution is to go the other way around.
Create a company that will track people you see during interview with the
potential following outcomes:

1. not enough data (quite rare now)
2. enough data ; comply to the spirit of your team
3. not enough data ; does not comply to the spirit of your team

This will be a cat & mouse game.
It could be fun.

Oh god, this exists:

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https://redact.dev

Delete your digital footprint.

The only platform that allows you to automatically clean up your old posts
from services like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Discord and more all in one
place
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