Comments on: Be Careful What You Write About Online

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:17:19 +0000

I’m trying to be careful, but it’s somewhat late for me to become anonymous. I don’t have much to hide, though – I’m pretty happy with my job.

But I can say that I was helped with two my last jobs with men who knows me online. So, sometimes consequences can be pleasant too.

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By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:22:05 +0000

Well,in India our supreme court recently refused to pardon a guy for writing in a hate group in Orkut. The hate group was actually directed against a major political party (well known for its divisive politics btw). It is really sad when such things happen.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:18:07 +0000

This is one of the reasons that I NEVER use my real name or address online, always use disposable email addresses and don;t have a any profiles on sites like Facebook. If you did happen to know my real name and Googled me, you would find nothing.

This will help for normal companies searching for your information.

But remember that your ISP knows who you are and every web resource that you have ever visited And at least in the USA, the government can get access to that information.

I would not be at all surprised to find out that the government has some secret unit which complies posts and profiles for many people, linking info together as only the government can do.

And it doesn’t even help if you are using TOR, JAP or other anonymity services. After all, you don’t really know who is hosting the servers. JoeCools service may really be a government hosted server intercepting all messages.

Martin knows who I am and where I live since he sent me a t-shirt in the past. Did you destroy those records Martin? :)

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:34:26 +0000

my guideline is not to speak too much about my job or my own life.
Anyway, when I start to badmouth I have always a rise of small paranoid feeling; I never know who might read me.

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By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:42:24 +0000

I’m curious as to who found this. What were they doing?

Now, we know the name of the company.

BTW-We all have freedom of speech.

Be careful of what you say.

By: Dante

Dante — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:42:19 +0000

I have never understood people who post their inner most musing and desires on a public web. Nor the ones who rant and rave about “The Man” using their real names.

Than they get surprised when “The Man” doesn’t feel like hiring them. And it’s “not fair”.

The Company fired this one because she can’t keep her mouth shut. Can you imagine clients with pre-launch intel working with this marketing firm and noticed her blabbing all over Facebook?

By: TreasureIslandVegas

TreasureIslandVegas — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:01:00 +0000

Thanks for the advice, good post