LadyLuna said:
jebbaz said:
Absolutely nothing put on the internet is safe. Sure you can take preventative measures, but if someone wants info bad enough, there is nothing that will stop them from getting it.
And with how much of the census is public record posted online...
(yes, I made it more generic. Because the scary thing to me isn't what I put on the internet, but what others put on there about me...
Many people don't realise how much information they are leaking.
The most important thing is to consider _all_ the possible datasources about you, and what you can get when you put them together.
It's pretty obvious that providing your full address is bad, but combining other data can give this.
For example - speaking about a model.
You have a birthday, and reveal your age.
This gives date of birth.
Combined with your area, and your first name, which may also leak, this may be enough to find you, on public records - voters rolls, credit records.
If I was starting out as a model (which is at this point unlikely) start out with a completely 'clean sheet' identity.
Make up a birthday, or at least throw off your age by one year.
Pick a 'real' name to use for all correspondence, and only ever use it for model related stuff. Use a town one to the left, ideally that you know a bit, but not one you've lived in.
Have your fake name and birthday and ... somewhere you will see it every day, so you remember it, and the reasons for it.
Never refer to anything you mention on your MFC identity from your 'real' one.
Don't retweet messages, mention anything you did, or ...
Don't link to the same cool tracks or sites or ... from both profiles.
Ideally you want it so someone that knows your MFC identity reasonably well can come across your civilian profile, and not realise it's you.
Never mention any news or events that may be tied to you, or your real location..
For example - 'I fell over a massive pothole' is fine - but 'I won that compensation case after I fell over a massive pothole' may not be - if court records are searchable.
Similarly 'my neighbours house caught fire', will often be in the news in some form, and let people narrow down where you live.
Maybe I'm just too paranoid.