Big question. How would anyone get the identity of F.R. members? I smell B.S.
By the way - Barak Hussein Obama is indeed a muzzie.
Uh, it can be done. My sister used to post here regularly. She thought she was being careful never to reveal personal data, but she mentioned one little item, another one six months later, another one a year later, and with the help of the function that lets people see your posting history going back years, some weirdo managed to figure out who she was and where she lived. She got scared and stopped posting. With her encouragement I'm taking up the slack, but I'm more careful.
There are folks out there who hate us, folks. The internet is not a friendly place. It's filled with people like Danielle, who are so so so intelligent and use their intelligence to stifle speech they disagree with. Especially ours. How dare we question Obama's bona fides?
"Sifting through hundreds of postings, she began to piece together their identities."
You mention your age one month, you mention where you live another month, you mentioned where you went to college a year before that, later you say what your job is, you mention that you are involved in the local chapter of the Knights of Columbus .... check, check, check ...... "Hello, Mr. Robert Kelly. Glad to hear that your son, George, is going to Notre Dame like you and your wife, Nancy, did."
It can & has been done my FRiend. A certain website used to do it all the time before it was shut down. The members of that site scattered and now infest other "so called" conservative sites. They "lurk" here constantly.
That all depends on what they post.
Example: A few months ago I was reading a thread about Uncle Jeremiah's new digs south of Chicago. Someone posted an aerial view of the new subdivision. The discussion veered off into mapping program accuracy, etc. By way of making a point, someone posted an aerial view of his own neighborhood with a yellow X marking his house and noted that Google was five houses off the correct location (fairly common – Google uses NavTeq databases to decode street addresses, and they aren't perfect).
Just for fun, I replied with a photo of his house taken from the street.
I simply looked up the domain on which his aerial photo with the X was hosted, then checked the domain owner's address in Google, observed that it looked like the right neighborhood, and then posted a cropped screenshot of Google's new street view photography of the house with the yellow X.
Moral of the example: If you post images, don't host them yourself. Leave them where they are currently hosted or dump them somewhere anonymous, like Photobucket.