On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 23:05 +0000, John Case wrote:
I should have asked this years ago when there was more traffic/users on this list (and I was using a different nym[1]) ... but years ago there was not such established proof of data correlation in "anonymized" data sets (netflix, "anonymized" medical data, etc.) [...] These actions are probably not robust. My thought is that it can lower my common profiles below the noise threshold that a particular aggregator might have.
What do _you_ do to sanitize/de-correlate your nyms ?
I don't. I only use a nym for things that need to appear to have been done by a third party, or for other reasons should not be traceable back to Shawn K. Quinn. Someone who I am currently not on speaking terms with once "clarified" his/her position by stating her online and in-person personas were different; his/her online persona made it appear he/she was more approachable than he/she actually was. I simply don't play that game. I do follow cypherpunk topics, I use PGP/GnuPG, Tor, Mixmaster, Freenet, GNUnet, etc. from time to time, but for the most part, I'm not nearly as paranoid as I used to be. For better or for worse. Hell, I quit channeling my Google queries through Tor some time ago (I still only accept session cookies from Google, and that's only to make the services work that require a Google account). -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@speakeasy.net>