If you are naked and don't want to be seen but want to know who it is that you hear coming, you might step behind a hedge and just peak through. But do you know if the owner of the hedge is back there behind you with a full view of your backside?
...that is a metaphor for people who make obscure names for themselves and then repeatedly use those names in web IDs by which they chat, visit forums, blog and so forth...they almost make it easy for the marketer or phisher who is sifting the net for real names to manage an uncloaking. So say researchers at INRIA.
You can test that special bit of privacy armor you forged for yourself right here.
I did. My moniker greensmile is would not be identifying until the population of the planet shrank to 1.4 billion. But the gmail ID behind it is a friggen lighthouse with my name on it.
A rambling monologue of one man's views on society, politics, business, environment, consumerism etc. If you want to know which trash can to put this in, "dissident American independent with liberal and tree hugger tendencies" will do.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Sunday, March 25, 2007
the geometry of liberal groupings.
The larger the circle of inclusion is drawn, the less visible the heart of the inclusiveness is to the outsider and the and the longer and more confusing the perimeter that outsiders must patrol.
The tiny circle is for insders to keep others out. The large circle is for outsiders to keep themselves from getting in.
The tiny circle is for insders to keep others out. The large circle is for outsiders to keep themselves from getting in.
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