Fair warning to my fellow goats - Account anonymity in anon subs is a fallacy and what you write can and will get used against you. (whatever)

submitted ago by NeedleStack

This post is an advisory to users that your username is connected to whatever you write in anon subs.

What you write can be seen by one or more devs who’ve been given that special access. But what you may not know is that they can and do use it against you as they’ve done with me in the past and as recently as yesterday. And one or more of those users who have this ability are part of SBBH.

Some history: One of the SBBH members had a hissy fit with me over a year ago and is probably the same user who would “miraculously” happen to know it was me when I would write certain things in anon subs in the past. I’d write something and they’d make a snarky remark revealing that they knew were talking to my account. It wasn’t a huge deal but it made me aware that my username could be seen by one or more users with this special access.

Back to present day: I’d never bothered to get caught up in SBBH drama until about a week ago when I started needling them in anon subs with a comment here or there regarding their questionable activities on voat.

It didn’t take long for one of them to take the bait and clearly refer to me when making this remark about my recent comments:

http://archive.is/eBPYZ

My account is exactly 2.7 years old. Whoever wrote that comment was a fool; for so obviously ‘giving away’ that they could see it was me writing those comments (showing their hand), and to give such a sensitive shit over what I wrote (notice it took anti-SBBH comments for them to get fresh and reveal themselves).

Let this story be a warning to any of you that this ‘special access’ to see which user is writing “anon” comments creates an unfair advantage and in the wrong hands can be used against you. At the same time, these privileged few are able to enjoy the ability to hide in anon subs themselves.

@PuttItOut, users will never be free to “have their say” in anon subs until everyone but you is stripped of the ability to see who’s posting what in so-called anon subs.

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Edit: Hey, cool! My post got a "Speculation" flair. Perhaps the first in voat's history in v/Whatever.

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12390058? ago

Who here has dev prevs? Another possibility is that you revealed yourself through tone and topic. Of course cation should be used here, anon or not never say anything you wouldn't say in public.

Crensch ago

Anyone that uses a comma properly or, heaven forbid, a semicolon, is accused of being me in anon.

12395192? ago

All I know is we can't trust anyone with an account that's 2.8 years old

heygeorge ago

@PuttsDad could probably get access if he really wanted to just by grounding Putts for a day or however long it would take to suss the password to dev tools.

PuttsDad ago

I only have access to anon usernames because I have a duty to monitor my son's internet use. THAT'S WHAT A GOOD PARENT DOES!

heygeorge ago

Good man. And I'm proud you make him keep the server in the living room, so he can't be up wanking to god knows what in the bedroom.

PuttsDad ago

Great son, terrible sex addict.

gabara ago

You're not my real dad!

PuttsDad ago

Yeah, I've been a bit of a shit stepdad to you. Sorry about the beatings.

If you see her before I do, remind your mum that it's teabagging nite tonight :)

gabara ago

Mom loves that! Can you get me another grenade. Yep, another bully.

100LinksToGunter ago

You say that but I joke about gassing jews in public but wouldn't say it online under my own name purely because I'm printing evidence to be used against me. I mean at least with out in the public you can just say "prove it" and until they show that they record your voice constantly they can't.