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Re:Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, inclu... by Mtinie on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:03PM (#14466611)
People won't include the social media accounts they don't want to call attention to.

Net effect: Not safer as a whole, but we'll see how deep the social network surveillance actually goes and how good the pseudo-anonymous attribution algorithms really are.

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Re:Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, inclu... by CaptainZapp on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:02AM (#14468030) 

  People won't include the social media accounts they don't want to call attention to.
Which is extremely risky. Depending on your profile they may find you with a simple search and having lied on your visa application or to an immigration officer will get you barred to visit the US for years.

And that's your best case scenario.

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Re:Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, inclu... by Mtinie on Friday June 02, 2017 @05:11AM (#14468557)
A "simple search" in the days of TOR and anonymous accounts isn't so simple.

Ergo, the second part of my comment about how well those "hidden" accounts can be uncovered.

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