Has anybody deduced who you are from your posts?

6/22/03 | 7 x 77

[7 x 77]

How careful do you have to be to preserve your anonymity. I regularly watch the identifying details I reveal, thinking I could be found out? How many others do that? Has anybody been ID'd?

[Calpernia]

Are you trying to ask if anyone figured out real name versus FR handle?

[7 x 77]

Are you trying to ask if anyone figured out real name versus FR handle?

Real name.

[John Jorsett]

I wouldn't worry about it, Jeff. Anyone with your bank balance has bigger problems anyway. :-)

[Calpernia]

Well, I'm not very transparent here. So yes, others know my real name. You can find mine by following links in my profile.

So guess I'm not a good example.

[Xenalyte]

I'm pretty up-front about myself - my real name isn't on the site anywhere, but from my profile page, it'd be easy to figure out who I am.

[4mycountry]

Nope. ^-^

[Ready4Freddy]

LOL!!!!!! :>)

[7 x 77]

I wouldn't worry about it, Jeff. Anyone with your bank balance has bigger problems anyway.

JJ, Your right, I shouldn't be posting I should be earning. Jeff

[Ben Bolt]

Hi !

I'm Ben ! This is my wife Dorel !

[dalereed]

If anyone wants me all they hae to do is pick up a phone book, who cares!

[Normal4me]

Heck I figured out you were really 539 along time ago! :-)

[Calpernia]

Ha ha, doesn't seem too many are concerned about 'hiding'.

[pcx99]

The first rule of the internet is "There is no anonymity". This is an absolute, unbreakable rule that has been true every since the internet started functioning. The only anonymity provided by the internet occurs when humans are lax and discard or fail to keep records.

The moment you connected to this website the webserver logged your unique internet protocol address which is given to every device that's connected to the internet (in fact its impossible to use the internet without an IP address). The website immediately knows which ISP you used to connect to the internet and given the IP address, your ISP can track that address directly to your computer.

If you use a terminal at a library they know which terminal and security cameras can provide a photo, face recognition systems can match that photo to your drivers license.

Every email you send has your IP address attached to it -- by the email servers themselves. There have been a few (unconfirmed of course) reports that every single email and newsgroup posting is being monitored by the echelon tracing system set up by Australia, the UK, and the US. I don't think they can track all the in-country stuff (yet) but they can for sure track all the international stuff.

Every usenet newsgroup you post to has your IP address recorded (although most servers will encode the ip address nowadays so that the server admins can find your IP but not the people who read the newsgroups).

Most people "fly under the radar" but if someone REALLY wants to know who you are, you can be found out, and found out far easier than you would ever dream of.

[lilylangtree]

I've nothing to lead anyone to nowhere. So, no!

[EggsAckley]

Personally, I have nothing to hide, except, of course, my address and phone number.

[Overtaxed]

I've pointed non-Freeper family to threads I post to and they were able to tell which poster I was. :)

[Spunky]

".....others know my real name. You can find mine by following links in my profile.

I should say a person can find it by going to your profile page. It just jumps out and hits you. ;-)

Hi, I'm Lisa!

[Prof Engineer]

Hi, I'm PE and I'm a FReeper...

[blam]

I've been here since 1999 with a picture on my home page, no-one I know (outside FR) has ever recognized who I am. I don't see a problem what-so-ever.