[The Truth Will Make You Free]

AI could probably identify FR users from their posting history. It may be time for access to FR threads and posts to be members only. Of course, a lot has already been captured by wayback, so it may be too late...

[fr_freak]

AI could probably identify FR users from their posting history. It may be time for access to FR threads and posts to be members only. Of course, a lot has already been captured by wayback, so it may be too late...

Most people are way too much into sharing on the internet. If you have accounts attached to your real name, and you share certain info about yourself, and then you have accounts that are "anonymous" and you share the same info about yourself, it wouldn't be hard to correlate the two. If you're a Facebook user you can multiply that by a factor of 1000.

A really clever algorithm would identify you by your distinct writing style as much as personal info. But then again, most people are barely literate enough to have a writing style.

[flamberge]

...so it may be too late...

It is years too late to worry about that.

The best defense you have is that "The List" has 17,398,524 people on it by now and the Agency is short-staffed with all the recent layoffs. It is going to take them a little while to get around to you. They have other projects with higher priority.

Besides, "The List" is mostly run by contractors, who got their business through political connections and are too cheap to maintain quality controls. The Agency staff hate them because they keep sending them the same names of people who have moved, died, or gotten married and changed their names.

It can be a huge waste of the Agents' time and carves out a chunk of money that otherwise might go to their department budgets - and maybe their GS step increases.

Sometimes inefficient government is a good thing.

[bigbob]

Yes, especially since many probably make similar comments on non-anonymous sites