[Calpernia]

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

[John Jorsett]

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

[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.

[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! :-)

[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. :)

[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.

[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.

[livius]

Alas, I don't think anybody is asking...

[jlogajan]

Has anybody deduced who you are from your posts?

I always use my real name.

[kms61]

I've recognized a couple of people....I know them from another forum, and they've made essentially the same posts here that they did there, in the same words, more or less.

[Scenic Sounds]

This thread's for you. ;-)

[The KG9 Kid]

Come and get me, coppers.

[FairWitness]

I've been told throughout my life by various people that they "don't really know me" (I'm that quiet and reclusive), so I guess if anyone bothered to figure out my name they still wouldn't know who I am!

[OpusatFR]

Are you worried Hitlery will really manage to steal the presidency in 2008? ( ;