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- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+84If everyone was held accountable for something they said 10 years ago we'd all be unemployed. It's a good thing I'm just a sock.
- rrunboy12, on 10/12/2007, -3/+56[this posting has been deleted]
- hackershandbook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43I only wish my "meatflesh name" to be anonymous .... if my cybername(s) don't show up on google - then I might as well be (cyber)dead
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35I don't know what's less fortunate, your parents naming you Adobe or your last name being Vista.
- hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28I consider the ability to do stupid things one of my greatest rights of privacy. Remember: oftentimes people do not do stupid things on purpose, but on accident. I would hate for my accident to be plastered all over the interweb, for future employers to see.
Of course in some occupations you need to have cred. As for me, Ill remain anonymous for now. - MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20@4degrees: According to various sources, you are either Anthony Caruso (I), who played Bella Oxmyx in ToS; a 38 year old woman from Centennial, Colorado; or a 15 year old Counter-Strike player, who also likes Star Wars Galaxies and The Matrix Online. Meh.. it is somewhere to start... lol.
- 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13and in the ocean of time
it will as if you never existed
instead try contributing something great to society
not for your own sake, but to uplift the collective of the entire world - ophilye, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14if you're not google-able, are you sure you still exist?
- FrankieB078, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Interestingly enough, I feel as if, in the future, if you do not have one of these things that makes you readily available for information, you will be looked down upon, and made to feel as if you have something to hide. Society does a good job at making people feel like this.
- RedbeardUH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I doubt it, there are some pretty potent genes in our DNA that scream "be known, be alpha."
- Hoovooloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The issue isn't so much keeping completely anonymous, it is separating online identities. For example, I have 2 online identities through which, with a significant amount of digging/hacking/social engineering, you may be able to find my real name and location. I also have many other identities, which I have created using proxies, free email, and the like, so that no one can link me too them. That way, I can have my "business" side on the web, as well as my "screw around, have fun" side.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I bet you'll want to be googled when you're dead.
- infimprob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Probably the greatest comment ever
- 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12i challenge someone to find me on the internet. been "online" since 1997 (really since ~1992 if you count dialup BBSing) betcha ya cant!
anonymity: preserved. - IronKurton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Actually, there is still salvation for the rest of us for whom "it is too late" to get into the privacy game: misinformation. Saturate the search engines with so much misinformation about your name, whether fake or actually belonging to someone else, that it becomes nearly impossible to distinguish the correct person throughout the hundreds of thousands of page hits. International spies do it, why can't we?
- Leonaken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+64chan > 7chan > *.*
- Lenin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm, already trying to do that.
Its not what you end up posting online,, It's what your friends post about you that gets you in trouble.
I've heard of a million stories of "significant others" stalking facebook, myspace, and other blogs to keep an eye on someone. - batmanjr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9This is ridiculous and marked as lame.
Once you go to school you are practically guaranteed to be googable.
Besides once you say how cool you are because you aren't known, that is exactly what you're trying to be known for. - Battleman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Anonymity aside, the tricky this is how do you know what will be cool/uncool in 10 years time...? I guess bagging Microsoft never goes out of fashion.
- ejstacey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The problem is: if you're there now, you are in the systems for good now. There's no getting out. In a database somewhere, you will be saved. I'm not necessarily saying you'll show up on the Way-Back Machine or any other site, and sure you'll soon fall out of Google's cache (if you're trying), but whatever you put on line will never totally be erased. Expect everything you put on the web to live there forever.
With that in mind, you should consider what you put up now and try and say "if this gets pulled up in 10 years, will this be bad/good for me?". Photos of you doing a 2-story beer bong or smoking a joint may be cool/funny now, but once you're trying to get a job, it probably won't be too helpful if your potential employers somehow find the pictures while doing a background check. Taking them off your MySpace or whatever won't save you.
A great resource on this is Steve Rambam's talk. He was the guy at the HOPE conference that the FBI arrested right before he was about to give his presentation (titled "Privacy Is Dead"). He finally was able to give the talk back in November (or October, sometime late last year). During his talk he shows what he could pull up on one (very brave) volunteer. It's a good talk. Eye-opening, and while you won't exactly be putting on tin-foil hats after this, you will probably think twice about what you put on line.
http://www.hopenumbersix.net/speakers.html#pid2 - an0nymous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I do. I really do.
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah, because there is so few people in the labor market, employers have to randomly search for names ...
- zombiedepot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4With cameras everywhere and data mining more possible than ever, yeah, you're going to wish you were anonymous. I think we're going to wish a lot of things by the time all of this is over.
- greymaxcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5In the future I'll be dead.
- kingfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@4degrees
well, i think it wouldn't really be that hard for someone who wanted to and who had the skills.
where to start....hmm....
ip logs? your ebay transactions (although you'd need an inside connection for that, since it's been 4 months since your last purchase). i'm sure the 932 stories you've dugg would hold some gems you could piece together toward some kind of lead.
nobody's unfindable. trust me. - dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Too late for me. Googling myself pulls up every asinine comment I ever made on usenet, as well as film reviews on Rotten Tomatoes? I am apparently also a wrestling coach in Illinois...
I've got a friend who absolutely vanished after high school. No google, no nothing. Once he hit college there was a web page, then he transferred and vanished. No trace at all. Kudos to him, but dang, least he could drop us a line. The last person I found with his name was some 40 something year old dude on Usenet cruising for a "daddy". bleh. - fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Being found on the net is fairly impossible for me... I search for my name, and all I get are fan sites for some daytime soap opera villain.
- Waterispoison, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I'm sure 7chan is happy about this.
- t.toe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah, I Googled my name last night, and found absolutely no websites referring to myself within the first three pages. however, I Googled one of my good friend's names and my MySpace page was the 5th or 6th link on the first page. Which is peculiar.
- Shinta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Anonymous approves.
- alc0h0lic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, just fix yourself 3 or 4 virtual identities and you'll be anonymous :)
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.google.com/search?q=masamunecyrus
"Results 1 - 10 of about 38,400 for masamunecyrus"
*****. :-) - rolandog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Marked as Inaccurate.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Kathleen+Parker%22
If she really was into anonymity, she wouldn't have her name all over the net... or should've published it as 'anonymous'. - nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Too bad 7chan is a cheap imitation of 4chan.
- smitting, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you know guys, you can legally change your name. Government will still know what you've been up to, but prospective employers won't.
- viva162, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yikes! I'm every result on google (27) for this username.
i had completely forgotten about some of the sites I used this name for!!
scary.. - UberNick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I met a girl one time and prayed she didn't google my name. Not because of anything stupid or untrue, it's just that all the results are from chess tournaments, math contents, and programming competitions. Exposing the geek side too soon usually results in disaster.
- smellinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you google a friend, and you can't find ANYTHING, please post their name and information in this thread.
Then we're all in this together! - Pootle4rthur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have no desire to have future employers have any of idea of what I think or what I do when I am not on their payroll
it's none of their business as long as one is competent to do the job. The fact that employers use google and the like is already overstepping the mark, in my opinion.
Googling my name, thankfully doesn't bring up anything related to me directly, and long may it stay that way - WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh, and don't forget to use a browser with cookies disabled if you want to use multiple identities without linking them (for the truly paranoid)...
- WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So your descendents can tell what a jerk you used to be? : P
- infowar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree with this 100%, but people are too caught up in the moment to realize what they'll regret later on. Kind of like the "Girls Gone Wild" Sluts.
- leftfield, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am lucky enough to share my somewhat unique name with a overzealous real estate agent. I can be googled but I'm on page 9-10.
- Knoton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@4degrees
-do you have a deviantart by any chance? 4degrees doesn't bring up many google results - 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@MatttK
not even close on any account, although the fake name i used in the profile is the name used in the start trek TOS episode "a piece of the action"
as long as i can keep the anonymity no one is gonna put the bag on me! :-P - writerboyVSgod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My dream is to one day get a job where they want to know my handle.
- Pootle4rthur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3you seem to rather be missing the point. If you are writing a blog it's best not to be done with your real name, if you log into websites and spew forth your opinions anonymity is probably a good thing as in time those opinions could well come back to haunt you.
I would refute the idea that being "cool" has anything to do with it, more being aware of the advantage of avoiding leaving too greater a electronic trail of destruction in your wake - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No... many employers search sites like Monster. Now, if you are an employer and every bugger with a resume is listed as anonymous, will you hire them? Think about it.
- yakoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Prediction: The new hot thing in our future will be anonymity. To be un-famous. To be Googled — and to not be there. No link. No Wiki. No tube, space or face. No nothing."
I have achieved this - I am a chick magnet. It has not been easy. - uberdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2***** that, I want a secret identity.
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