Re:FBI put Anonymous 'hacktivist' Jeremy Hammond on terroris...
by torthrowaway123 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @05:41AM
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I dont quite follow your point - youre worried that I might have used my real email address when creating this HN account, or used the same password as a different HN account?
Re:FBI put Anonymous 'hacktivist' Jeremy Hammond on terroris...
by e12e on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @12:23PM
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The same (or similar) password as any other online account you have. In theory that should be safe(r) than using the same email (obvious to most people as a key for joining data). As I said, I just saw that mentioned by Snowden in Citizenfour -- and it stuck with me, as yet another thing that could be used to track a user across accounts.
You know, I just watched "citizenfour" -- and one thing stuck with me: when explaining X/Keyscore targeting, Snowden mentions that you can use anything that uniquely identifies you, like an email address or a phone number... or even a password.
Granted HN is served over SSL, so that shouldn't be an issue... but you know -- if you're being overly paranoid, make sure you're paranoid enough that it actually helps ;-)