Personas and privacy

Hello fellow lainons, That's a thread to discuss how to create and manage personas, so your real you cannot be known. 1. Should We Have A Facebook Account? A lot of persons think we shouldn't have, because all the private information isn't really private, that makes sense. But on the other side, it's already weird if someone doesn't have a facebook account, if you don't have one, you can't fake you are part of the majority, you could just generate a fake activity. And if you don't wanna waste time, why not create a bot? Hard work, but possible. 2. How much people know of your personal interests? Like tech security? And how much should they now? Are you good at STFU about your online activity 100%? Okay, I already raised some questions, now it's your turn.

>Should We Have A Facebook Account? No. Instead of trying to join the majority, why not just not join the minority. By that I mean, just don't advertise that you aren't a facebook used. It is only weird that people don't have one to you. I personally never created an account, so it doesn't seem weird to me that people do not have one. On this topic though, you probably should not participate in any social media, especially ones tied to your real life self. You can only be governed by the laws of the real world if you have a real life identity in the wired. To truly be free you need to try and reduce all the connections that can single you out to practically nothing. >How much people know of your personal interests? Similar to above, you need to try and reduce giving away exactly who you are. If you do want to share things like that, try and use a brand new / temporary identity to do so. Even being a little bit vague when describing yourself can go a long ways in increasing the number of possible "yous" out there.

>>4575 >Should We Have A Facebook Account? Unless you're trying to gain influence in a social circle that dominantly uses the site, I can't think of a reason. Maybe if you have a large amount of people you want to keep your existence in their minds? >How much people know of your personal interests? [Hobby] social group usually stays within that hobby, and [other hobby] social group theirs. Weird stuff like tech security is harder to find social groups for but it doesn't really matter in anonymous forums if you're not doxing yourself. >Are you good at STFU about your online activity 100%? I don't really know what you mean besides hiding xyz from the government. There's nothing to tell people in social groups about my online activity unless you count anonymous forums.

The question I have been thinking for some time now is that should a programmer have a job relating to programming in real life, if (s)he wants to keep that part of his/her life private? I have been hearing that adversaries such as CIA or KGB has the capability to attribute certain lines of codes to individuals, some sort of stylometry relating to the coding practices. They have actually gone such lengths to steal malware from other adversaries to circumvent that. It could be possible they would try feeding some lines of code into one of their supercomputers and find out who is really behind it.

>>4578 Turns out spy agencies are not the only ones who can do that. pdf or link related: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~ac993/papers/caliskan_deanonymizing.pdf What do you think lains? How can someone overcome such stylomery analysis?

>>4579 That also exists for the way you write texts. Well, you could code a program that change your writing style, pretty intuitive answer, you probably already thought about that. Isn't there a correct way of writing code for each language? Like the way you should comment, use tab or space, etc...

>>4580 -change function names to synonyms -standardize tab/space usage -standardize seperation between text blocks the hard part though, is changing real writing style. You need to do that, no script can do it for you, since it requires an understanding of what exactly your code does.

>>4581 the hard part is doing this while keeping things open-source and readable. The only easy way to do it is to onfuscate your code, which defeats the purpose. You could distribute a mildly obfuscated source file, and have the source signed by people you trust not to snitch, but that's not a real solution.

Doesn't Facebook require a phone number that they keep pestering you with whenever you log in from a new IP with confirmation texts etc.? >>4578 Anonymouth exists for natural language 'anonymization' (no idea how it works); there has to be a package for programming language 'anonymization' too, right?

How do you manage your personas I simply use a password manager with regularly updated notes on what email/account owns what account