Posted on 02/11/2005 7:19:23 AM PST by Lazamataz
Recently, two Freepers who have some measure of prominance outside the forum have been damaged by liberals and/or Democrats. Jeff Gannon has resigned as a White House reporter, and the individual who goes by the name NCPAC has left his position in Maryland.
J. Gannon wasn't necessarily damaged by anything he posted here, but NCPAC was damaged by the work of a Democrat mole or a Washington Post reporter who revealed his freepmails.
It should be possible to post on this forum with anonymity and to be able to really discuss what's on your mind without worrying about Democrats trying to ruin your professional life, so, in order to help prominent Republicans who may wish to be an active member of Free Republic, I'm formulating some suggestions that I would like to have new users see.
This is what I have so far, as far as guidelines to help our prominent freepers avoid damage in the future:
If You Are A High-Profile Individual In “Real Life”….
If your daily job is such that you are a high-profile individual – as example, an official in a Republican campaign, or a state official in a Republican administration, or a rightward-leaning reporter – please read this article and take these suggestions.
- Please don’t reveal your identity. Please don’t drop hints as to who you are. Please don’t succumb to the temptation to show off a little and thusly compromise your anonymity.
- Know that there are Democrat operatives (and now, it appears, Legacy Media reporters) who pretend to be loyal conservatives. They will attempt to get you to reveal damaging information about your candidate, your administration, or your media enterprise.
- This is for ALL Freepers: Never reveal any personal contact information. Please don’t post (or share in Freepmail) any email accounts, private phone numbers, addresses, or places of employment – unless you really know and trust the person to whom you are revealing these things.
- Know that Freepmail can be, and sometimes is, exposed publicly. Please, never say anything in Freepmail that you would not want posted on the public forum. Please, people, add whatever you think might be helpful, and I will post the result as a new article.
For those who are unaware, that's the way it works. When you get your own domain name you must provide your name, address, phone number, email, etc.
Anyone who knows how has very easy access to that information.
Just my 2 cents.
If you want to post your name and address on FR that's fine. Go for it. Others may not be comfortable with that.
BTW, I own a few domain names too. It can be a problem sometimes especially if you own your server box.
Laz: Good Post. Thanks for taking the time to post this thread.
Yeah, I've looked at it and it's cached. Oh well....
If you post here, you should be willing to live or die by your posts.
Anything less is just girly-manism.
No problem. This plot has been acted-out MANY times before on this forum.
I'm just surprised that you needed a reminder. You should've known better.
If 'paranoid' is now defined to mean 'recognizing legitimate threats', please refer to me as paranoid henceforth.
If you post here, you should be willing to live or die by your posts. Anything less is just girly-manism.
Just because you don't mind losing your job or career, doesn't mean everyone shares your resolve.
You are Ted Kennedy!
You may think of them as "man breasts" but I think of them as "life saving floatation devices".
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
Spyware can be varying levels of seriousness, but the keylogger is a big problem. Key loggers capture things like CC numbers, passwords, etc. that "regular" spyware normally doesn't. I'd watch my CC bills very carefully for a while.
"If you post here, you should be willing to live or die by your posts.
Thank God I'm a nobody....
It would be a waste of time to explain it to you.
PS: The economy is doing great.
Good read. Bump!!
"Only the paranoid survive."
Andy Grove
Pinging you to this very important thread. I know we don't normally ping the Dose list to anything except Dose threads. However, the information on Laz's tread is critical to everyone who is active on FR. May I suggest we link to this thread on today's Dose. I'll also put links to it on the weekend threads (unless I hear otherwise from y'all).
My second screen user ID is # 9407.
Look it up yourself
Until then, you are #22425.
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Thank you Laz. Informative piece and makes us more aware and careful.
That must be a good neighborhood. May you and your neighbors keep it that way.
I had a good feeling they read also .. which is no biggy
But possibillt setting people up is a totally different matter
Those fools are playing with fire and THEY will end up getting burned
The Hatch Act is enough to keep some posters paranoid.
You are not supposed to have multiple concurrent screen names.
Do the honorable thing.
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