Tim Bray · Private and Public Mastodon

Re:Tim Bray · Private and Public Mastodon by dmix on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:26PM (#34224543)

I'm amazed sometimes at the datasets KFers uses for doxxing. If you care enough, you just need to pay attention to leaks and store them all and you can make a mini NSA X-Keyscore.

During the whole Cloudflare banning thing I remember coming across a dox that deanonymized someone via the Patreon hack dump [1], where a simple Twitter username match turned into a name + address (via credit card details stored by Patreon).

Anonymity and OPSEC requires some serious effort and knowledge.

[1] https://www.christianpost.com/news/patreon-hack-almost-14-gb...

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Re:Tim Bray · Private and Public Mastodon by zirgs on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:32AM (#34228851)

Serious effort - as in - not reusing usernames and not posting embarassing stuff using your real name?

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Re:Tim Bray · Private and Public Mastodon by dmix on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @09:23PM (#34241162)

Yes, telling people to not reuse passwords is enough of an ask.

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