Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)

Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by barrysteve on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:31AM (#32603985)

Could just extend the logic and tie it all the way down to your house address. [email protected] and finally commit to a real-world identity to match the cyber one. Why not have a mail server in every house and then it's private and everybody can understand your email address. When you move house, the mail server spits out a thumb drive with your emails and deletes the local storage. You move email address to the new house. You could eventually replace the [email protected] format and just autofill the email for John at 124 Main St in St Louis.

For some reason (probably a good reason) the internet can never be grounded, we always are going to stick to obscure formats that don't necessarily line up with real life and then get surprised when gov agencies collect that data and corps make money selling that exact data, out from under us.

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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by brewdad on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:46AM (#32604046)

That gets unwieldy in a hurry for apartments and other multi-unit addresses. Not to mention 124 East Main St vs 124 West Main St.

Then what happens when John (who is actually John Jr., but never uses the Junior unless legally required) has a son John III? Then John Sr. moves in rather than to a nursing home.

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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by barrysteve on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:59AM (#32604105)

Same as whatever people do with their physical mail. Someone goes by a middle initial or you add a title to one and not the other.

Your physical home address used to get printed under your photo in the 1940s newspapers. They stopped when people started to get murdered. I think there's good reasons we don't publicly ID off home addresses anymore. It sure would make life somewhat simpler if we could though.

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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by drdec on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:08AM (#32605821)

> Your physical home address used to get printed under your photo in the 1940s newspapers. They stopped when people started to get murdered.

Citation needed.

Were the murderers foiled by having to use the phone book instead of the newspaper? Was it the lack of pictures that stopped them?

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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by tartoran on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:43AM (#32607416)

Probably the photo and adress published together would make it much easier to trigger murdering psychopaths whereas phonebooks had no pictures. Just my assumption as I am not familiar with this practice, though I do believe it is quite a bad idea

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