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Post by bonzini »

rkomorn wrote: post #164
mywacaday wrote: post #137

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I'm Irish and have a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com At some point the head of a national hospital thought he had that address and wasn't using his official email for everything, I got several emails that should not have been for me and some were quiet sensitive, I always emailed back the sender to let them know and eventually I emailed his secretary as it kept happening. I've also received purchase order confirm…

My spouse suffers from this as well. It's bananas to me how many people use that email address clearly thinking it's theirs.

I have myname.wifename@gmail.com (we use it for bills, children activities, and other family stuff where you can't register more than one email address).

Neither of our names can be confused with a last name and yet I had multiple people writing to it incorrectly, including: as the email attached to a Diners credit card (I called Diners and they asked me what's the right one and "if I don't know the right one how do I know that it's wrong"), as the email for a school 400 km from home (another family must have had the same idea), once for some lawyer stuff (I then learnt that about 100 people in Italy do have my wife's name as a very uncommon last name), and lately as the recovery email for another Google account.

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Post by reactordev »

eru wrote: post #197
Yetino wrote: post #196

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The other end of the spectrum has its own problems too. My first and last names are both quite rare — deliberately so, thanks to my parents. That means when someone, say a potential employer, googles my name, it’s reasonable for them to assume every result they see is about me. For a while, I actually liked that. It felt like having a unique identity online. Until one day I discovered someone else had created a YouTu…

I wonder if I'm accidentally doing that to someone. My complete name is rare, but I share it with a journalist who's quite a bit older than me.

This is why actors and musicians use stage names.

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Post by catoc »

basilgohar wrote: post #209
eru wrote: post #199

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What are you talking about? If you send emails from eg GMail to Gmail, it's fairly secure.

Gmail can be fetched via IMAP and leave Gmail's infra entirely. And I don't think Google guarantees that their implementation stays fully on their own owned infra. It's a reasonable assumption but I'd never trust that for a security guarantee. Email is not an end-to-end secure data protocol without the use of client side encryption/decryption like PGP/GPG, but even then, sender/receiver and time are all in the envelo…

Yeah, that exactly my point - no idea why I’m being downvoted on this

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Post by xg15 »

a5c11 wrote: post #203
xg15 wrote: post #181

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I wonder if the emergence of "virtual celebrities" like VTubers has anything to do with that. Seems like the best of both worlds: You get the loyal fanbase and positive energy of a celebrity, but can also simply "log out" of that identity if it would negatively impact your "real" life.

Depends. If you are a really recognisable persona and you just log out one day, then expect a bunch of psycho-fan creeps looking for you in the real world.

Yeah, they'll probably always be a small number of creeps who try to doxx you, unfortunately. But I think it's still the difference between "a small number" and "everyone who has seen you on screen at some point".

An identity that is obviously constructed (like VTubers) at least signals to the audience that the real person behind the character would like to stay anonymous. I think the majority of fans would respect that wish.

Whereas celebrities who make their real-life identity into a brand - even if that brand is an obvious fiction as well - signal the opposite to their audience.

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Post by layer8 »

chtitux wrote: post #189
marginalia_nu wrote: post #72

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I propose we use UUIDv4 to interfere with any attempts to build demographic databases.

I strongly suggest UUIDv7, with our birthdate encoded as time. Ordering the world population by birthday becomes so easy. Plus no endless discussion on wether or not we should use UUID as primary key.

People wouldn’t be fond of their name divulging exactly how old they are.

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Post by georgeburdell »

torben-friis wrote: post #168
bertil wrote: post #115

A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents. At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. A…

My name isn’t super known, but it happened to be the same as that of a very big fish in the financial institution I worked for. Thankfully these people were working mostly through physical meetings and calls, so no sensitive info was leaked, but I did get calendar invites to discuss the future of entire countries as an engineering intern. I used the name a couple times to set up our internal meetings in the fancier u…

Not identical, but I once shared most of the first name as well as my last name with a VP of research at the company I worked for, and we were in the same technical field. My (much less impressive) publication record got confused with his frequently and I always wondered if it gave me a career boost.

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

cube00 wrote: post #146

Time for other Zuck to sort out his SSL. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for markzuckerberg.com. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.facebook.com, *.facebook.net, *.fbcdn.net, *.fbsbx.com, *.m.facebook.com, *.messenger.com, *.xx.fbcdn.net, *.xy.fbcdn.net, *.xz.fbcdn.net, facebook.com, messenger.com

Thanks for the list. Blocked.

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Post by Findecanor »

I live in a relatively small country, but my first and last name are very common over here.

There have been at least seven others with the same name in my city (population 1M) who had bought computer equipment in the same shop. In the country, there are at least three other software engineers, of which one had published his undergrad thesis on the same topic as I had at about the same time.

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