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But people are commonly lazy, and you'd find that most people who don't even consider resistance to deanonymization as a concern will just use the same name on many sites.
Use the battery horse staple tool to generate usernames. Or don’t, I’m not your mom.
`correct horse battery staple`
just wondering how memorable that technique is.
edit: indeed
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But people are commonly lazy, and you'd find that most people who don't even consider resistance to deanonymization as a concern will just use the same name on many sites.
Speaking personally, I kind of want people to know I'm the same person in different places. I do realize this is a terrible idea from a privacy perspective, and probably a lot of other perspectives. But I think a bunch of people want to use the net this way.
I used to do what this tool does but manually when networking. Find someone I wanted to network with then find all of their online accounts to try to find an "in." Definitely very creepy but I if called it networking not stalking and its okay right.
An even better trick is to invite them for a podcast recording. Then all this research is suddenly very normal and expected.
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But people are commonly lazy, and you'd find that most people who don't even consider resistance to deanonymization as a concern will just use the same name on many sites.
Speaking personally, I kind of want people to know I'm the same person in different places. I do realize this is a terrible idea from a privacy perspective, and probably a lot of other perspectives. But I think a bunch of people want to use the net this way.
I use the same username (which is my real name as well) pretty much everywhere.
Seems incredibly prone to false positives. For example, I can guarantee that I'm not the AdmiralAsshat on Reddit, Gmail, or Twitter, because that username was already taken by the time I tried to sign up for them.
The end result seems to be that this tool decides you're interested in "dating", "porn", "stocks" and tags you with a "ru" country code - despite not owning any of the accounts that the determination has been based off of.
The README should come with a disclaimer really.
Seems incredibly prone to false positives. For example, I can guarantee that I'm not the AdmiralAsshat on Reddit, Gmail, or Twitter, because that username was already taken by the time I tried to sign up for them.
This is technologically impressive, but I was disappointed (but not particularly surprised) to see no mention of the ethics involved in using this sort of project - in either the GitHub issues or the README/docs. This seems like a great tool for stalking people; particularly the recursive functionality (for tying identifiers together). I'm not saying the world is worse-off due to the release of software like this - i…
I always think it’s strange when people make the argument that it’s good for harmful tools to be out in the open because people can/will change their behavior because of them.
99.999999% of people will never see this repo, never know things like this exist, and don’t visit sites like HN but can, and probably will be, affected by it in some way.