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I dont know what to think about this paranoid thought.

For lack of a better phrase I'd say this thread can be summed up as "beating a dead horse."
 
dogluver101 said:
I've thought about something like that. Though there is the thing where if someone makes it obvious based on what pictures they're sending. Like someones dog. I've noticed someone that had a telegram profile pic similar to what I saw elsewhere. If one were very determined, they could just use anything even if its something small to compare.
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That's how everybody's hero Fausty originally outed himself. He used the same Harlequin Dane avatar on both BF and a base jumping forum.
 
UR20Z said:
There's a tool called (I bet I'm screwing up the spelling) The Billadoe Sieve, whereby a computer user can be identified (not by name, but absolutely to "We're talking about one specific person" level) with anywhere between 95 and 99% certainty by the pattern of what websites he hits on a regular basis, regardless of where he comes from, whether it's his home computer, a library computer, internet cafe, or whatever. It's effectively a "fingerprint" in terms of its level of uniqueness when it comes to identifying a specific user.
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95% is too high you would have to give information about where you live or something local to you for them to be that certain
UR20Z said:
The "Maybe we SHOULD be afraid after all" part is that it *SHOULD BE* common knowledge to any intelligent internet user that most (all?) governments and/or government agencies either already have, or can easily get that sort of access, at least for hardware located inside their borders.
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It all ends with what they get from going after you, there are millions of people in the internet breaking the law why should they go after you.
dogluver101 said:
I've thought about something like that. Though there is the thing where if someone makes it obvious based on what pictures they're sending. Like someones dog. I've noticed someone that had a telegram profile pic similar to what I saw elsewhere. If one were very determined, they could just use anything even if its something small to compare.
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This can help but even the background can identify you threads/online-security.1275/
 
NearlyEthical said:
I tend to worry about it sometimes But I don't really post a lot on media where my name is attached either by name like on Facebook or anything connected to my named e-mail. To sign up for site where I can be an anonymous person I use stuff like 10 minute e-mail and make sure to save my passwords in a password notebook I keep in a lock box. Gives me a bit of peace of mind.
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As a future note maybe don't tell people where you keep your passwords, this is personal and something that can identify you :)
 
Kristy said:
For sure, some is over the line. No doubt. There is a lot of it aimed at improving your online and offline experiences. If they can please you that way, you'll be happy, and will spend more money on either them, or their advertisers and/or other clients on things you buy anyway. If that works, it's a win-win.
Just a little example: a girl I knew went to a supermarket, paid for her stuff and presented her Super Shopper Savings Card for that store, which they scanned, of course. Ten minutes after she arrived home, she went online to a weather website she frequently visits. On the site were ads for the local, not national, store chain she'd just left, which she'd never seen before on that site, along with separate ads with printout coupons for a few products she brought.
She freaked out until I explained to her those appeared instead of ads for products and services she would never, ever use, and wasn't that better. The system worked.
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Hope so....but I know this....the distance between your pupils is almost as good as fingerprints, for id purposes...not in a US Court, of course, but its a place photo analysts can start to develop a case. Those guys have been VERY busy evolving their technology over the past 75 or so years....heck in Forestry, we use that to type and count trees, for a board-foot survey....eyes are EASY.....
 
Huskeroni said:
If you think about it there are a lot of characteristics to classify, like wording, punctuation, persistent spelling mistakes, idoms and the whole lot. As for myself I noticed my sentences somtimes get awkwardly long by using many conjunctions. So I think there's certainly some way to crawl all posts made by a specific user and match it up with other texts up to a certain degree.

However, here's the catch: Without a concrete suspision, the overhead of something like that would be massive. You'd have to create a "profile" of each and every account that can be traced back to a natural person and iterate over all these profiles to try to match it with an offending text. I wonder if those nosy privacy nightmares aka 3-letter US agencies do have the computational capabilities for such things.
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they do, but usually admins or producers def con will explain how they do it.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Hope so....but I know this....the distance between your pupils is almost as good as fingerprints, for id purposes...not in a US Court, of course, but its a place photo analysts can start to develop a case. Those guys have been VERY busy evolving their technology over the past 75 or so years....heck in Forestry, we use that to type and count trees, for a board-foot survey....eyes are EASY.....
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Interesting stuff.
 
Reconscope said:
Just a bathroom thought: Ever feel like every word we say can be tracked/ identified digitally or real life based on the pattern of our words without the use of addressing or anything else tracking related. Heres a example: a individual favors a very specific set of words/weapons/skills they shared/acquired over a long while during their lifetime. Someone can use this infomation can track others but dont use it but when they do find out there is pattern they will exploit it they will find you then they will get you.

Scary thought to think about. If our words and lives equal a tracking pattern in some hidden grammaical algorithm.
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SO, after reading all the comments so far, are you less paranoid than you were, or much, much more so?
 
zooms said:
95% is too high you would have to give information about where you live or something local to you for them to be that certain

It all ends with what they get from going after you, there are millions of people in the internet breaking the law why should they go after you.
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Nope. As noted, they can't say "This is Joe Blow of 123 Green Blvd, Greentown Ohio" by using "the sieve" - What they *CAN* say is "Yes, this is the specific single person we're interested in." No name and address, only "the website hit pattern shows that we're definitely talking about one specific person, not one of <pick whatever number you like> possible persons."
 
But what about public profiles linked to your real name? As far as I know, Twitter pushes hard on "verified" accounts and Facebook sometimes blocks profiles until you've uploaded proof you didn't impersonate anybody, for example (not really sure, I keep my distance to both of them).
But of course, even in that case, I'd say it won't count as bulletproof evidence you've authered some texts. I don't think it will be reliable enough for that as even if was is 99% right, 1 out of 100 people would be wrongly classified, or 10 out of 1000, …
If it was used, I think it would be rather as an indication that you might be involved in authoring some texts. There are probably more important things to worry about than us zoos, for now
 
UR20Z said:
Nope. As noted, they can't say "This is Joe Blow of 123 Green Blvd, Greentown Ohio" by using "the sieve" - What they *CAN* say is "Yes, this is the specific single person we're interested in." No name and address, only "the website hit pattern shows that we're definitely talking about one specific person, not one of <pick whatever number you like> possible persons."
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There are billions of people online searching and doing things online they can't single out to one person without a dozen false positives, every arrest using profiling was always because of some exploit or human error they did. You can see how they profile in the famous case of silk road https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/world/americas/silk-road-ross-ulbricht/index.html
 
When you are working against the law everything you fear as public like fraud and scam are your protection
 
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