onetimetoken
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- March 16, 2010 (16y ago)
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I consent to a benevolent search for my identity or identities. I was quite surprised to see the speed and scale of this development - another symptom of networked life.
Some of the speculation is very interesting. It's also surprising what accidental properties of my original post(s) have come under close scrutiny when people start looking for patterns.
With the awareness of being "hunted", it's surprising how quickly one becomes more cautious about many actions. Of course, I've violated the cardinal rule of my account and used this token more than once, but part of the theory we're testing is that despite using a onetime token (to hyphenate or not, that is the question), my identitiy could still be revealed.
I feel a bit like why the lucky stiff, although his persona had merit, whereas mine is accidental. Coming next week: onetimetoken t-shirts. ;)
PS: No timestamp for you!
Thanks, that would be my first angle of attack as well. The assumption that I have at least one other hn account is reasonable enough. Even when I wrote my first post, I was considering faking a different…
I was just trying to empasize my point. Just out of curiosity, how would you go about identifying me? Thanks for the linked article. Interesting indeed.