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What is entirely frustrating to me is that online, my “real name” persona is the carefully manicured, boss/future boss friendly, totally censored fake me. And the pseudonym persona is the open, honest, outspoken me.
Unfortunately, in a Google world where everything is searchable and you just never know if the next person you have to interview with will have done that search and discovered where you’ve been and what you’ve said that may conflict with their political worldview or religious belief system, what choice is there to protect my career which in turn protects my family’s future.
I know, I know. Massively run-on sentence. I’ll shut up now. It just burns my biscuits sometimes, all this sneaking around. It just silly that the real me is the fake me and the fake me is the real me.
WOLVERINES!
As a software developer and ID theft victim, I’ve spent many years telling people not to ever use their real names online and not to ever store their credit card on a shopping site (like Amazon). And I’m not gonna stop. It’s just stupid to do it.
How many supposedly secure systems have been compromised and data stolen? Didn’t Google themselves recently have GMail compromised by Chinese attackers? Why does anyone think that any corporation. even Google, can keep you safe?
Look, any system connected to the Internet can be cracked open. It’s just a matter of time. It’s when not if.
So why voluntarily give them one piece of information more than is necessary within a given system? Can the application function without real names? Is any social network really so compelling that it is worth the risk? Why do people allow web sites to store their credit card number?
Why is everyone so willing to hand over their identity to a corporation and rely on them to protect it? Isn’t that like allowing someone else to parent your children? Why is everyone so eager to have their identity raped by some hacker? What the fuck is wrong with you people?
I just don’t get it.
Are you effing shitting me?
FBB: “Hello, American Cancer Society. We’d like to give you $500,000 but we’re atheists”.
ACS: “Um, no.”
FBB: “Great! uh…wait…what? I don’t even…”
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/09/08/why-are-they-rejecting-atheist-generosity/
After exploring, I can see that we won’t have power, much less FiOS, for at least a few days.
Going exploring the neighborhood to survey the damage.
