How important is your privacy on the net to you?

Ok,
My privacy. Firstly i'm quite an open sort of guy. I don't mind talking about my life who i am what i do etc. (if you look through my posts you could work out my first name)

That said. I am exe forces so i have at least a sence of personal security. I would not give out my home address or phone number etc. I would not let my ip address link to my true name. I have however, posted info that could (if a very determined person or organisation wanted) be used to track me down. That would take some effort though. So i think that how private we are on line is dependant on how much of a target we think we are. Barring all the nutters out there. Also how much exposure we get.

Jinxy=pissed at the moment, so will see what other people have to say and post back if needed :cool:

Simple fact: Your ability to secure anything begins with your level of suspicion of all things.... If you can't secure yourself properly then you won't care a rats ass or won't see the appropriate need to secure your employers stuff....

Doesn't that make you useless to your employer?

Last point.... What you do today on a system that has "memory" can and will come back to bite you in the future... What you do, how you are and how you live today will change.... What happens when those changes are disaffected by yesterday's "reality"?

You won't always be [insert age, job, position here].... Look at politics... Look how what they said 20 years ago comes back to haunt them.... It's hard to lose someone who has certain basic information from a long time ago..... It can be done.... But it's a lot easier to prevent them from getting the information in the first place......

Quote:

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The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

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http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/k...2&byte=2534203

I quote this verse when i'm tempted to worry. You take reasonable measures
to keep people from stealing your pocketbook, but you shouldn't fear to walk
down the street.

The IRS knows where I live, and we all know there is no one on earth
meaner and tougher than they are, so why should I fear petty thieves
and wannabe H4X0rERs?
:cool:

I think it can be quite important to be private hell , Look at this crazy site i found relating to one of our members http://www.members.shaw.ca/infotechgeek Now i would never want others to see such a thing ROFL ( sorry ITG but i just can't keep a secret :) )

Dr. Leonard Kleinrock,the creator of the internet himself regretted that he should have created the net with security in it . so acording to him there is nothing much we can do about it now . may be if the net was recreated again .well that's a hindrous task

Google on my nick and/or real name and you'll be sure to find my home adress..

I don't care.. I chose to give out that kind of info..

Now if I were a scriptkiddy or something, I'd be skared shitless..

Ha i chose my nic because anyone who new me from way back would no who i was. I used to think it was fairly unique, untill i came here (the_Jinx) :)

personnal privacy concerns we quite allot, and since i started using the internet back in the mid 90's i was very careful as to where I posted my details, admittale I was foolish occasionaly and posted under an email address that gives away my names, this ive tried to clean up and asked various people to remove things and some are helpful, but google cache can still hold them so its not that difficult. The majority of free things Ive signed up for on the internet ive done under false names as to avoid spam and junk mail.

when ever I get junk mail though the post, i'll print off my standard "take me off your lists you bastards and give me written confirmation or i'll take legal action using the data protection act" (not that ive got the money to do that, but it works.), im only young but sometimes im just like a complaining old man...

a few months ago, i was in a club and was chatting up some girl and ive got a very good memory even when im complelty wasted, so i remembered everything about her, the only things i new about her were here name and county she lived in, allong with all the other drunken banter...for some strange reason she said she'd meet up with me if i could prove i was serious by finding out things about her - full name, age, address, etc..... so a few taps away on the keyboard revealed all i needed to know including an article in the newspaper about her, which she'd even forgotten about. (dont ask me why she asked me to do that, I thought it was really random and would freak her out but i decided to take that risk) it just goes to show that information is abundance on the internet and people forget that.

and one time on AO i accidentally put my real name at the end of a post and was so concerned that i hit the edit button and got rid of it straight away.

call me paranoid, but someone once said to me "paranoia saves lives" and i believe that.

i2c

jinxy, ever been here : http://www.jinx.com/ (not mine though ;)) ??

I used to be realy paranoid, but not anymore, if people want to know about me, they will no matter how paranoid I have been..

It might even be usefull to do some stuff under your real name, if I were to look for a job and the 'head hunter' entered my name in google and found some patches on GNU sites and other on-topic suff I posted, that might just help get me that job..

In the beginning I was very paranoid, but that was mainly because my parents were running a P.I. / IT Security combo business out of the house (they're both retired police officers, he's the #1 security expert in the state). From listening to them talk so often about identity theft and cyber stalking and how easily it was performed, I became very paranoid. In fact, they used to teach a special "Predator" class to law enforcement agencies regarding that.

Since then, I've loosened up. I post stuff like my first name and the state I live in, but that's about it. If someone can find more on me, I'd sure be interested in learning how you did it, that could prove fascinating. But as I aspire to establish a professional rep as my career progresses, I'm going to inevitably have to give up some of that privacy as I market myself online.