Just how anonymous are you, really?
I noticed a post on the forums that brought my attention to this, and another group, which I am part of.
By joining the group with your real name (which most of you have for you use your Facebook accounts to connect with friends&family), you are giving yourself away to anyone from the other camp who might be looking for information about you. I googled my name and found information from articles I was quoted in back in high school, my father’s company email, and my home address.
I suggest everyone takes a moment to realize that by joining this group, you lose your anonymity which is one of the few things, if not the only, that protect you from their Fair Game policy.
In fact, noticing how much information I could dig up about myself (which I am very anal-retentive about keeping off the internet), I worry some of you might not notice how vulnerable you are.
You join this cause and your support brings Anonymous to life, but you can’t remain anonymous if you can be so easily found on the internet, and what I find most troubling, is that your friends/family who might be found in connection to you might be subjected to the Fair Game policy.
I’d also like to point out that Google is by far not the sole way of people finding you, there are websites specialized to collecting as much information about you as possible and posting it to the world.
If Scientologists have gone far enough to car-chase and picket, they will most definitely look you up.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am
That is very true, and I believe that other people strongly agree with you, but I look at it in a different light. Critics of $cientology are all SP’s, the more well know as well as ex-members of the cult. They have been harassed and picketed and so forth, but they still have the balls to say what they believe. Its people like these that show the true cowardice of $cientology. Their days of singling out people are now over.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 am
This is what I wrote in response to your post on the other big Anti-$cientology group:
I think even though this is a obviously a complication in the plans of Anon, showing no fear is the best course of action. Showing $cientology that we do not fear their actions against us may tell them that we are more than just “hackers on steroids”.
And in response to anyone that thinks that Anon is not actually making a difference (again, another post from the other topic):
Making a difference is informing the public, which we are successful in doing.Even if we don’t take any more action than peaceful protests, it is enough to make the public aware of the problem.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 am
I don’t really care.
I dont go to protests or anything. (Little town)
I don’t have anything to hide, no permanent record.