GGPViper wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Unless you're some kind of VIP in Australian government, industry, or media, I doubt that Beijing would find you interesting enough to spy on.
And if one *did* belong to a category worthy of espionage efforts by the Chinese government, then simply swapping the word "China" for a similar-sounding alternative when posting on a message board is unlikely to deter anyone with even the slightest intelligence gathering skills.
For instance, the OP of this thread includes the words: Uighur, Xinjiang, freedom, democracy, Hong Kong, surveillance, harassment and coercion. It would be much easier for an algorithm to identify red flags based on a combination of these words than on the single general word "China" which could pop up in millions of different circumstances.
And you think I don't know this?
As I said, I am interested in mitigating attention.
Never-the-less, I will continue to codify my wording where I think it prudent.
Call it being over cautious.
Call it wishful thinking.
Call it being aspie stubborn.
GGPViper wrote:
Having identified the OP based on these words, they could then review the person's posting history to find personal information about age, gender, education, occupation, residency etc, exploit 0-day vulnerabilities in the website's cryptographic hash function to get the person's password and email, use the additional profile information to identify the person's online shopping habits, acquire the person's physical address from online orders, satellite image the person's home to establish daily activity patterns, Install remote cameras and or keyloggers to acquire the password to the person's personal computer, copy that person's browser history to get compromising information to use for leverage, rummage through that person's trash to get the person's DNA and frame the person for the murders of JFK and Jesus.
I'd be more worried about the oncoming necktie and pillow genocide, though...
So presumably, because you think I am being paranoid, you are feeding my paranoia with thoughts of my being one of the victims of an "oncoming necktie and pillow genocide"?
Charming.
BTW, why the clusterfrack on me?