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Be anonymous
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#2"Ultimately, anonymity comes down to one thing: Control. You should educate yourself on data privacy and make sure that you know what data you're sharing and what is possibly out there."
That's some REALLY good Solid advice.
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#3The conclusion is a weird one, given the premise. The crux of the argument is basically true. Its an all or nothing proposition.
Or you can lead a double life. One for your public persona, where you don't care at all about security, and your real persona, where you do. This has been my approach on the internet since basically it started and handles were a common thing.
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#4The title is misleading, clickbait. The article is in fact about why it probably isn't necessary to be anonymous and even then says nothing particularly important.
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#5Agreed. Anonymity is a spectrum. Just like personal finance, most people haven't even begun to assess what state they're in.
You should not accept the state you're in without knowing what state that is. Most people should have more anonymity than they're giving themselves.
"Defend your rights. Nobody else will do it for you."
-- ReactiveJelly
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#6The conclusion is a weird one, given the premise. The crux of the argument is basically true. Its an all or nothing proposition. Or you can lead a double life. One for your public persona, where you don't care at all about security, and your real persona, where you do. This has been my approach on the internet since basically it started and handles were a common thing.
With that in mind, you just might have posted this comment on the wrong account.
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#7The conclusion is a weird one, given the premise. The crux of the argument is basically true. Its an all or nothing proposition. Or you can lead a double life. One for your public persona, where you don't care at all about security, and your real persona, where you do. This has been my approach on the internet since basically it started and handles were a common thing.
> The crux of the argument is basically true. Its an all or nothing proposition.
No, it's not.
Every online account (that doesn't involve money or legal paperwork) can have its own name. Then you can decide whether to have _some_ accounts ultimately link back to your legal name, or all accounts, or none.
> Or you can lead a double life. ... This has been my approach on the internet since basically it started and handles were a common thing.
That's exactly what I'm doing, and neither of us are living in the Brazilian rainforest, so anonymity really is a spectrum.
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#8Feels like the article is slanting this Alex guy as a hero of sorts? I don’t like the tone of the article and wish I hadn’t clicked on it now..
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#9Privacy is on a spectrum, but is also compounded by time and once the cats out the bag it can be impossible to turn back. In the example given of Alex Cazes he could change the from email but the damage was already done - there's no way to recall the emails already sent that led a trail back to him.
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#10I would strongly advise anyone who really wants to be anonymous on the internet such as a freedom activist in a totalitarian country, not to follow the advice listed at the end of the article.
Or rather: these are very basic and very naive recommendations, certainly good first steps, but absolutely nowhere near enough to guarantee strong anonymity on the internet.
Remaining truly anonymous on the net is extremely hard, especially in these days where ML can be used to statistically narrow down and pinpoint who wrote a specific piece of text only based on things like use of punctuation, vocabulary, sentence structure and style.