The Easy to Track Username Hall of Shame - Reading warning labels are for chumps.

[Outer Space Traveller]

I believe if someone is found to have shit opsec here the process should be:
1. phonebook them and check post history
2. a. if creepy/lolcow/nonce shit is found ----> Expose
b. if seems to be an ok dude that just didn't take the opsec warning seriously ----> DM, let them know their opsec is dogshit and they made a poor decision, call it a day.


You either get kindness toward your fellow kiwis or new content. Either way, good for the community.

That makes sense, right.

 

[alphabetnigger]

I believe if someone is found to have shit opsec here the process should be:
1. phonebook them and check post history
2. a. if creepy/lolcow/nonce shit is found ----> Expose
b. if seems to be an ok dude that just didn't take the opsec warning seriously ----> DM, let them know their opsec is dogshit and they made a poor decision, call it a day.


You either get kindness toward your fellow kiwis or new content. Either way, good for the community.

This thread is now the opsec security station. Please have your ID ready

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Please have your ID ready

Track it down yourself. I'm not doing your work for you.

 

[Glowie]

because of this thread I'm still paranoid people will somehow find my other accounts even though kf is the only place i use this nickname on

Honestly there's no need to dig, usually it's to chastise newfags or when someone has petty personal vendetta (Shit Null tries to stop)
I for one do not understand why someone get their feelings hurt over text or pictures over internet.
I have to bring up someone who who was featured in this thread @pumkin man was outed here, his autistic art and projects were adorable to look at. People outed him here, he didn't sperg out. He took it with stride and contribute to farms with his skills.

 

[Day of the Cope]

because of this thread I'm still paranoid people will somehow find my other accounts even though kf is the only place i use this nickname on

As long as you didn't reuse any emails or passwords, you should be fine.

If you've been using internet for any extensive amount of time it's inevitable, it's not just about being "retarded", it has never been as serious as it is now. Leaks from sites you haven't thought about in 20 years. Forums that won't wipe accounts. Government and their contractors getting hacked and all their data being posted all over the place, or simply being incompetent and letting their documents being indexable. Scrapers for anything public you've ever put out. Most people weren't running different emails to sign-up to places, and it wasn't that obvious all of that, combined together and ready for consumption, would be available by just copy-pasting an email address, and even if you did and/or used some privacy service, you're bound to make some mistakes, slipping up, maybe because you were in a hurry to get something done instead of doing what would've been considered excessively paranoid at the time, if not just for spam prevention. Not much you can do about it other than not making yourself an easy target, if you don't have anything worthwhile for others to post about there's only people with an hateboner to worry about.

Add "businesses that can't be fucked to wipe their servers after going out of business" to that list.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Because I had access to the internet when I was a young teenager. And like every young teenager I was acting fucking retarded.
Thankfully I grew up and stopped.

As @Combustion Engine so well put it, leaking data everywhere throughout this panopticon in which we find ourselves is inevitable. The number one easiest way to avoid this is by not making accounts places, but there's inevitably going to be somewhere that would be juicy for someone obsessed, even if it's something unavoidable like information collected directly by the government. Imagine what would happen if everyone's credit card purchases got released. The best defense in that case would be hiding in the crowd.

Most people here aren't great detectives. Now, here's a great post by @Azdy detailing how he spent months tracking a guy who fucks dogs to death:
post-19396846
He doxed the guy from a dozen messages, because the asshole used a word he made up, by following him across several archives and data leaks. Even then, he got the wrong guy at first. Now, there are only so many people here who can do stuff like this, so the best defense is not fucking dogs to death, for one. The better people hide themselves, the less interesting and righteous it is to track them down unless they've done something heinous. Most people in this thread are getting caught with a single Google search that takes two seconds.

As long as you didn't reuse any emails or passwords, you should be fine.

Add "businesses that can't be fucked to wipe their servers after going out of business" to that list.

I once signed up for a place, made an account just to contact someone, deleted the account later, and got a message that my data was wiped. A few months ago I got a fresh e-mail from them, a decade after deleting the account. They'd had a change of management or something, and the deleted data was no longer deleted.

 

[DickMain]

Because I had access to the internet when I was a young teenager. And like every young teenager I was acting fucking retarded.
Thankfully I grew up and stopped.

You could just like not say that part. You all visiting this thread could literally just say fucking nothing. When asked "why, were you into weird shit" you could just say "no".

This thread is now the opsec security station. Please have your ID ready

I threw it out, oops.

 

[Azdy]

Most people here aren't great detectives. Now, here's a great post by @Azdy detailing how he spent months tracking a guy who fucks dogs to death:
post-19396846
He doxed the guy from a dozen messages, because the asshole used a word he made up, by following him across several archives and data leaks. Even then, he got the wrong guy at first.

The part where it went wrong initially was basically, as soon as I got the guy's name, I and the people in the DM group got so excited there was basically a rush to get the post out as soon as fucking possible. So we missed that theone other guy with that name who had a more open presence had a different DOB.
So without defence for that whole thing, make sure you really, positively have the right info. You could actually have the guy's name but the wrong guy WITH that name.
Turns out the other same name dude filmed his shit in a room that was a match in a house he put up on Zillow.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Because I had access to the internet when I was a young teenager. And like every young teenager I was acting fucking retarded.
Thankfully I grew up and stopped.

lol, I’ve googled my name and found forum posts from the late 90s where I used my full name as the username.

I think we were all retarded young teenagers online, especially when the internet was essentially new.

 

[Combustion Engine]

They'd had a change of management or something, and the deleted data was no longer deleted.

The funniest thing is that "properly" deleting data doesn't mean what the average person thinks it does for far too many of those companies, and it's not even just about them not caring about it and going "trust me bro, deleted it". For some (from what I've read about, so it may not be exactly correct) the proper practice is to set a "deleted" flag in your entries without actually erasing them from their systems, so their backups, instances shared between servers all over the globe, and whatever convoluted setups they've got going, bolted one on top of another, doesn't end up with some serious inconsistent state where they don't know if someone has requested their data deleted, if they have deleted it, or what dangling state is left sitting on some drives never to be reached again by some query. Google and some of the biggest companies can manage to do this, sending thousands of drives into industrial sized shredders if they have to, the average company couldn't care less. Some may be required to comply with some regulations like GDPR, but they also don't care, it's not worth the cost of getting all that right.

We may also not know now what fancy new ways to track people will show up in the future. Some may regret not taking advantage of current LLMs reformatting each and every post they make, and also leaving fake breadcrumbs in topics and threads they don't care about, because stylometry, cheap compute and scraped social media databases will make finding correlations between users that have no apparent direct connection with each other easier. Automating finding some guy using a made-up word in multiple places, or maybe a common typing mistake they've never learned how to fix, perhaps just a subject they're extremely autistic about. A small scale example of that could be seen a few years ago on HN of all places. Technology progressing makes all those things easier, but humans don't get any wiser, or have a limited capacity for how much attention they can pay to those things.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

For some (from what I've read about, so it may not be exactly correct) the proper practice is to set a "deleted" flag in your entries without actually erasing them from their systems

A neat method that never would've occurred to me is encrypting the data, and just deleting the keys to delete the data. Of course, encrypted data can be decrypted without knowing the key beforehand, also known as cryptanalysis.

We may also not know now what fancy new ways to track people will show up in the future. Some may regret not taking advantage of current LLMs reformatting each and every post they make, and also leaving fake breadcrumbs in topics and threads they don't care about, because stylometry, cheap compute and scraped social media databases will make finding correlations between users that have no apparent direct connection with each other easier.

I've got a pretty hard separation between topics and writing styles, but there's something else that should be mentioned. Too many systems have KYC requirements, block Tor connections, and other things that make true anonymity practically impossible for anyone who actually wants to participate in society. I've accepted that the government knows some of my secrets, but that's still a big difference from having a thread here or something. The government isn't going to fuck with me, probably.

It can be a good idea to check phrases in Google occasionally. I did this recently and scared the fuck out of myself. I expected tens of thousands of hits, and got a lot fewer than that. It turned out that there was still a lot of variation in the phrase I hadn't noticed, and I picked an unlucky combination. It wasn't a smoking gun, but it definitely could've been a breadcrumb.

With billions of different writing styles, I don't think it's too big a deal. Very rarely does somebody get caught using that as the first hint, although that's exactly what I mentioned in my previous post, but usually stylometry is only going to be used when the set of potential matches has already been massively narrowed down. Avoiding that suspicion in the first place is still the best option.

 

[Tread Miller]

It can be a good idea to check phrases in Google occasionally. I did this recently and scared the fuck out of myself. I expected tens of thousands of hits, and got a lot fewer than that. It turned out that there was still a lot of variation in the phrase I hadn't noticed, and I picked an unlucky combination. It wasn't a smoking gun, but it definitely could've been a breadcrumb.

This reminded me of an anecdote: I had a friend who used a pretty specific phrase, and his friend ended up using that phrase as well because they hung around each other. First friend eventually stopped using that phrase, but friend's friend seems to still use it to this day. Probably a very unlikely case, but it adds to what you said; checking phrases shouldn't be done unless the alternate accounts have been narrowed down, and even then it could be an unlikely coincidence.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

We may also not know now what fancy new ways to track people will show up in the future. Some may regret not taking advantage of current LLMs reformatting each and every post they make, and also leaving fake breadcrumbs in topics and threads they don't care about, because stylometry, cheap compute and scraped social media databases will make finding correlations between users that have no apparent direct connection with each other easier. Automating finding some guy using a made-up word in multiple places, or maybe a common typing mistake they've never learned how to fix, perhaps just a subject they're extremely autistic about. A small scale example of that could be seen a few years ago on HN of all places. Technology progressing makes all those things easier, but humans don't get any wiser, or have a limited capacity for how much attention they can pay to those things.

We're back to an issue that's been talked about a few times in this thread though, which is if you are so afraid of anyone knowing who you are to the point you have to use AI to reformat your posts and try to obfuscate your interests just on the off-chance someone might, one day, be able to figure out that it might be you...then why post to begin with? If you can't be genuine at all then it defeats the entire purpose and you may as well just read passively.
This is an internet forum, it's not supposed to be that serious, and the whole idea of posting is to express your thoughts.

Plus honestly so long as there's plausible deniability then it isn't a crisis; people can think an account is someone all they want, but so long as they can't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt it won't translate into much (at least for any average person).

That's part of why these spazzes showing up and confirming the accounts are them is so stupid, when if they just didn't say anything there would still be some lingering doubt that the info was correct. I think the best strategy is probably to not comment on lookup attempts at all, whether they're correct or incorrect.

I'd hope most people on here don't have anything that serious they're trying to hide that will have the feds after them or anything, so just use reasonable precaution and don't have a paranoid meltdown about it. It's not the end of the world.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

I'd hope most people on here don't have anything that serious they're trying to hide that will have the feds after them or anything, so just use reasonable precaution and don't have a paranoid meltdown about it. It's not the end of the world.

Kiwi Farmers obfuscate themselves to an unreasonable degree, and yet the monkey torturers use their real names and join monkey hate groups on Facebook. It's wild.

 

[Dunkin DoNUT]

This is still one of my favorite threads that filters out not just newfags but also oldfags who have been flying under the radar for too long because they haven't pissed off the right kiwi yet.

Kiwi Farmers obfuscate themselves to an unreasonable degree, and yet the monkey torturers use their real names and join monkey hate groups on Facebook. It's wild.

One thing I'm thankful for is that animal abusers tend to be some of the least intelligent niggers, and I find it amusing (frustrating) that they are so prevalent on normie sites like Facebook.

 

[Sandnigger]

This whole thread is just paranoia fuel and legit gave me anxiety even without having skeletons in my closet.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

This whole thread is just paranoia fuel and legit gave me anxiety even without having skeletons in my closet.

That sounds like what someone who has something to hide would say, stalker child.

 

[Guacamole Nigga Penis]

This whole thread is just paranoia fuel and legit gave me anxiety even without having skeletons in my closet.

The best usernames are usernames that are just words. No extra things like numbers or identifying features. Yours for example is a good username 'cause looking it up doesn't bring up your other identities and just brings up a bunch of songs and a wiktionary definition.

 

[Cheesy Beavy]

The best usernames are usernames that are just words. No extra things like numbers or identifying features. Yours for example is a good username 'cause looking it up doesn't bring up your other identities and just brings up a bunch of songs and a wiktionary definition.

oooohhhh oooooohhh do mine do mine!!! (When I looked it just leads me to a bunch of cheese sauces. A whole lot of cheesy but no beavy )

 

[Dunkin DoNUT]

This whole thread is just paranoia fuel and legit gave me anxiety even without having skeletons in my closet.

TBF this is easy to track username thread and not kiwi with the shittiest opsec contest. You're in the clear with a username like yours. I searched my own kiwifarms name on google, just shows me the official Dunkin' Donut site in its top results.

Pretty sure pages ago there was some schmuck trying to phonebook someone but the subject's kiwifarms name isn't even used elsewhere. Nothing really happened since because that's not the point of this thread