screen names

Do you all use the same screen name everywhere? Should I not do this?

Unless you're trying to establish an official online presence, I see no reason to use the same username everywhere. It makes it easy for someone to connect the dots and extract a lot of information from you, just by combining different sources of information.

>>11147 My advice is: 1. Create as few online accounts as possible. 2. Use a different screen name and other information (especially password) in each one. 3. Provide as little real information about yourself as possible. None if possible.

No you should not do this. I've doxxed so many people because their discord name is the same as their instagram or reddit account which posts in their university's subreddit and gives me enough info to find their Facebook or whatever... you get the picture. It's not even a anti-corporate thing it's just good practice to never cross-contaminate accounts. Even if you're trying to be influencer scum you should have a set of fresh accounts for that public persona that can't be tied to any of your existing accounts.

>>11150 yea thats a good point. If i wanted my name to be known i would have a separate set of credentials

Want a good tip for making accounts on sites that don't matter? Literally just generate a random 8 character string. There's absolutely no reason for your account on some streaming service or shopping site to be memorable, let alone tied to your primary online identity when nobody but you ever has any reason to know it exists in the first place The digital footprint thing becomes a total non-issue if you take this approach because even if someone figured out that you use this convention there's no way they're actually going to be able to search them out unless you fuarrrked up in other ways. When you're done with an account you don't even really have to worry about deleting it. Just stop posting on it and let it rot.

don't let your screen names interact at all. No shared names, no shared post topics, no indication that you are from the same place. I rotate mine regularly. Not interested in being doxxed.

>>11147 It depends on your situation. For me I try to use different username (not only the screen name) every where. I even use different register email as much as possible. Most of my accounts can be discarded at any time without doing special thing (apply account removing, etc.). Many people around me do not like to do that because they really care about their account's activities, namely personal reputation accumulated on these website. Eg. the github submit history. For me, it is nothing than a toilet paper. I throw out my account any time when I am happy, or not happy. That make me feel easy and relax.

Never namefaged on any text or image board ive ever used. I do have a reddit account and a discord but i dont use anything actually relating to my IRL name in my title I have a facebook which is the only online thing i actually have my name on but thats just to use the instant messenger with some people i know personally

i just go to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/special:random a couple times until i find one i like

>>11147 Unless you have a professional profile that you want to keep consistent across platforms there is no benefit at all in using the same handle. Even in a professional context you should consider a pseudonym if you can get away with it.

>>11224 Professional profile is different story, sure I've got that. But in parallel several pseudonymous / random / anonymous / throwaway identities of course. It all depends from circumstances. Sometimes I create pseudonymous / anonymous identities, which strong cryptographic identity. Which means that if I want to, I can prove that it's me later. Some people claim, it's pointless to sign messages with OpenPGP if public key isn't provided. That's not true, the signature is there so I can later prove that I've got the private key for that signature. Before I want to do that, the signature of course is meaningless with or without the public key.

>>11225 Honestly, why would you ever use PGP on anything that isn't your professional profile to sign a software release or some soykaf? What are the other realistic scenarios?

>>11227 Releasing some information, which I don't know at the point of release, if I really want to prove I've dealt with the thing or not. At least that allows me to very selectively prove that I wrote this, or not. To only selected parties. I don't want to provide too many details. But in general, are you the guy who did this (anonymous) thing? If it seems good, I can prove I were the anonymous user, in cryptographically strong way. If it turns out that I don't want to do that, then I'll just get rid of the key. Of course fresh pair is generated per context for proper identity separation. Problem with anonymity is that anyone can claim to be the party who did the anonymous thing. But this takes that change out, I can prove to be the guy, if I want to. Of course any other strong signature is just as good. Of course any other strong signature is just as good, as example one using openssl. MEUCIQCRl4wcaJRCSPD27hqdYwNkmr7SoZl/ceKh6lUhgzricgIgU1sOSahN9k/8 KLp9+CWvkLXCHx2kyqKL213oXbucn0g=

Reading this thread made me realize how bad I am at maintaining my security, I should start adopting these practices more.

>>11245 Another questions is, if it matters at all. In many cases it doesn't. As mentioned, I only take security very seriously with very sensitive topics / projects. Because maintaining that security is tedious. Think about it as someone who's someone famous like a race driver or singer, and still works as a spy taking very sensitive material around the world. - Even if you're very public, it doesn't mean everything would need to be public. Something can be very well hidden and only known to very small circle, or sometimes preferably to no-one.

>>11147 I have many screen names. Since I have many hobbies and interest, I keep it to each screen name a single hobby. So in a way, I created n personalities on the web and each screen name is one of them. I also keep a note(physical one) of each screen name's hobbies so I don't make mistakes.

I fuarrrked up...

>>11147 I have different identities, and will of course use the same name when representing the same identity. The best method to reduce issues with identities is to use fewer; I'm not using an identity to make this post. Stop creating accounts and start deleting those you already have. It's amazing how people will recycle a name repeatedly, making a nice little trail in this modern world of powerful text searching engines; I did this as a child, but recognized the folly and stopped, at about the same time I recognized other things I was doing wrong.

Delete any old accounts you can. Doxing someone is rather easy with how they manage their personal data. https://paranoidsbible.tumblr.com/post/160173700334/the-paranoids-bible-20

I use lain with different profile pictures, I dont know if doxing that is easy...

I change my pseudonyms whenever I can. I know for a fact that I can trace all my friends and coworkers info just because I know their facebook or one of their social media. So, everyhwere I can I change my name/avatar/date of birth/everything

>>11227 Well, wikileaks used them to sign their tweets up until Julians embassy got its internet/power cut off. In anonymous settings it can be used to cross connect anonymous identities. Or it can be used in a blogpost where you want people to know that you wasn't co opted or controlled, or hacked. Where they can know it is really you that is writting it, even if that "you" is anonymous.

>>11302 >spoof your typing style >adopt an entirely new persona If you are capable of and willing to remove all individuality from yourself for the sake of privacy you might as well do that while participating in the botnet and at least be accepted among normal people.

>>11628 >adopt an entirely new persona Just be careful when doing this, you don't want to accidentally retard yourself into a normal user spewing incoherent sentences and more emojis than actual text.

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