This is a part of not doxxing yourself.
Lie about who you associate with, what you do, who your trans friends are, what politician is running in your city, all of it. Have fun with it. Lie about every detail. Be as inconsistent as possible. Your one dentist friend that has a certain story relating to their occupation is actually your 106-year-old WW2 medic grandmother. A story you have as a software dev was actually told to you by a weeb cousin in Japan.
The truth doesn’t matter anymore and nobody needs it. Nobody is keeping check. What’s important is keeping everyone safe and having fun with it.
Safety is more important than name checking the millionth local school board member that talked about “preserving Western civilisation” in a Zoom meeting. Fuck that guy.
Especially be careful when referring to trans comrades in your life. It is an insanely small world for trans people. I have ran into trans people I know IRL through trans internet forums. If the wrong people are browsing, what you say + a first name is really all you need.
Also, you live at Liberal Mountain, Idaho.
A lot of infosec people are ginormous insufferable libs, and it can get painful to watch sometimes. Also the website you linked is dogshit, here’s the PDF of the slides from the conference website.
Nah, I live in Liberal, Kansas. DON’T COME HERE THE NAME IS MISLEADING.
There are lots of small towns named Liberal. There’s even a Liberal, Indiana.
please don’t post pictures of Liberal Mountain, where I reside
I’m pretty unapologetic about my political views and don’t generally think I have much to hide. …starting to wonder if I’m going to regret that decision.
This is moreso to protect yourself from doxxing/future brownshirts. If you’re in a safe enough country or province or state, keeping anonymous wouldn’t matter as much. Your privacy needs may be different than what most people are comfortable with.
I live in Texas. At this exact moment I’m not that concerned. I’m concerned about where things are going though…the election has me nervous. EDIT: Not that I think the country is going to erupt into violence on election day mind you…but whatever happens I don’t see things cooling down November 4th…
I’ve always done this online - I’ll have true stories but change details - where I am, how old I am, whether I’m trans/gay/cis, etc. It doesn’t matter to randos. Also using a VPN for posting is good and cool (I recommend the Mozilla one).
