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Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery

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Re: Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery

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Post by mikece »

Anonymity is impossible, especially online. About the best one can do is to engage in clever obfuscation though there's a benefit to creating multiple personas for online activity: it makes it easier to keep your silos of interest separated. It's not for everyone but it can be handy.

Re: Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery

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Post by EGreg »

alx__ wrote: post #7
jxf wrote: post #4

Now this makes me wonder if Derek Sivers is a real person or not.

My new online persona will be Derek Sirvers

Cool, mine too!

I used to go by Satoshi Nakamoto and be in the group Anonymous. I put out a few of those videos, but people kept challenging whether I was the "real" Anonymous.

Interesting thing, I was in Barcelona last week, and just out of the blue I meet Bill Murray and he buys me ice cream. He said "no one will ever believe you!" Before he left, I told him my name was Satoshi Nakamoto.

I'm just carrying on the work of my grandfather, Nicolas Bourbaki. Just like David Belle was doing what his father, Raymond Belle, began in Viet Nam.

Re: Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery

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Post by blfr »

mikece wrote: post #3

Anonymity is impossible, especially online. About the best one can do is to engage in clever obfuscation though there's a benefit to creating multiple personas for online activity: it makes it easier to keep your silos of interest separated. It's not for everyone but it can be handy.

Why would it be impossible online? You can pay anonnymously for Mullvad VPN, or use Tor, or open wifi. It's online that anonymity is even attainable.
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