This is a part of not doxxing yourself.
Lie about who you associate with, what you do, who your trans friends are, what politician is running in your city, all of it. Have fun with it. Lie about every detail. Be as inconsistent as possible. Your one dentist friend that has a certain story relating to their occupation is actually your 106-year-old WW2 medic grandmother. A story you have as a software dev was actually told to you by a weeb cousin in Japan.
The truth doesn't matter anymore and nobody needs it. Nobody is keeping check. What's important is keeping everyone safe and having fun with it.
Safety is more important than name checking the millionth local school board member that talked about "preserving Western civilisation" in a Zoom meeting. Fuck that guy.
Especially be careful when referring to trans comrades in your life. It is an insanely small world for trans people. I have ran into trans people I know IRL through trans internet forums. If the wrong people are browsing, what you say + a first name is really all you need.
Also, you live at Liberal Mountain, Idaho.
Nah, I live in Liberal, Kansas. DON'T COME HERE THE NAME IS MISLEADING.
There are lots of small towns named Liberal. There's even a Liberal, Indiana.
in a weird coincidence, i live in misleading north dakota.
its in south carolina.
weird coincidence is what i call my van.
sorry, my cat is very soft it is so unreal she hopped into my bed while it was dark and when I grabbed at my blankets to pull them over me for bed I accidentally grabbed her head instead
It was fun hanging out with all 10000 of you guys at our town BBQ in Liberal Mountain town square in Idaho, my residence. I brought the chicken skewers.
And to the cute comrade that listened to me talk about Lego: Ninjago lore for 13 and a half minutes, you forgot to give me your # so I could call you and follow up on my other miscellaneous bionicle lore. Feelsbadman
You may now continue our conversation about bionicle lore, I apologize but my phone was very recently destroyed after I filled it with mayonnaise to improve the signal.
Okay, well anyway. I was saying that there are actually cancelled Bionicle games.
Lego Bionicle: The Legend of Mata Nui was planned to be released for PC and would have covered the events of the 2001 storyline. The player would have been able to play as each of the six Toa Mata, exploring the island and battling Rahi. Though widely marketed and advertised in the months leading up to its original September 2001 release date, the game was suddenly and unceremoniously cancelled by LEGO. Varying reasons for this cancellation were circulated, not least of which revolved around the recent September 11th terror attacks, and subsequently that LEGO thought Legend of Mata Nui was too violent a game to be released to a North American audience so soon after the attack on the World Trade Center. However, according to interviews with former Saffire, Inc. developers, many former members of Legend's development team do not believe this to be the case. In the late 90s and early 2000s, LEGO's various media departments were used to regular mass employee turnover, often to the frustration of LEGO's contracted development studios. Former Saffire, Inc. developers say this was a key reason Legend of Mata Nui was canned. In 2001 a shift in LEGO's management allowed for a pitch from eventual Bionicle: The Game developer Argonaut Games to catch LEGO's eye, and combined with Saffire's well-known financial woes led LEGO to pull the plug on Legend's development.[1] In communication with Bionicle fan forum MaskofDestiny.com, a LEGO employee only specified as "Michael" cited Legend's chip compatibility and the timing of the release as reasons for the cancellation.[2] In February 2018, a functioning alpha build of the game was recovered[3] and through the diligent work of fan developers a beta version of the game was released to the public on May 12, 2018.[4]
Wait, I'm memeing. What the fuck is the # for? I'm super uncomfortable
just created a new account to avoid possible connections to me irl. just going to be direct on this one - i'm actually an italian-american for mayor pete and i work at 27578 Perk Ln, Harlingen, TX 78552
Actually I live in Moscow, Texas and I'm frankly sick and tired of all ya'lls Russian bot 9am Moscow time jokes!!!!
Everyone I know was a WW2 medic and I have six fingers. Today it is nice and sunny on Mount Liberal. I am enjoying an Idaho snack.
I have 6 fingers on my left hand and my father was Indigo Montoya. What a small world
Unless you don't actually give a shit. Then feel free.
I get it, Americans and some other countries seriously need to protect themselves. This is not in fact the case in dozens of other countries. Fear of exposure is a part of the system that has kept communists from growing for decades and kept communists from passing on their ideology to their children, if you're not particularly at risk then please consider being open. Here in Britain I'm a communist in my everyday life, even in some workplaces.
Being visible is essential. Being open is essential. Normalising is essential.
Opsec if you need to. Or don't if you don't need to or don't want to. Ultimately to achieve some things we literally can't.
you are divorced from your wife.
wyph is what you named your cat, who now lives with your ex.
hes nice but not your ex-boyfriend, hes an ex-housemate.
the siblings are all potted plants.
youre fostering them, as all your friends know you have a green thumb.
My real name starts with "Watermelon" and ends with "Sugar" and I used to work concrete in Portland until I lost all of my skin to the lime.
ok now i know this is all false, and can just extrapolate the truth,
Some years ago, I ran across an account that had a username that (deliberately) made clear that they and I shared an employer. After browsing their history for about 5 or 10 minutes, I found enough personal details to narrow it down to a guy I'd met a few weeks prior. It ain't hard if you have the right info. So, don't give it to them.
I had something similar happen. Saw a dude’s post on Reddit and was able to track him down in our company directory and emailed him directly. Hopefully he learned his lesson. Kinda terrifying to think of someone doing that to me.
What's scarier is the people who are trained in OSINT (Open source intelligence) and quite literally do this stuff for a living.
You have no idea how much data websites give away about you, and the data they don't give away is given away through web breaches. This is also ignoring the US State surveillance machine, and the fact that it definitely knows basically everything you do online.
Recommend making frequent use of https://fakena.me/ as well, never use anything that even sort of relates to your real name
felt like i had to call someone president atleast once before nov 3rd, just to risk it
A lot of infosec people are ginormous insufferable libs, and it can get painful to watch sometimes. Also the website you linked is dogshit, here's the PDF of the slides from the conference website.
https://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/materials/D1T3%20-%20The%20Grugq%20-%20OPSEC%20-%20Because%20jail%20is%20for%20wuftpd.pdf
Maybe being a tedious lib on twitter is the ultimate Opsec strategy?
