LowPolygon
Senior Member
As someone who has been wrongfully arrested, bootfucked, and searched without probable cause, I'm rather open to accepting this theory in light of what Robert has been able to get away with.
Actually, for me it wasn't a problem. I was psychologically, financially, socially, and personally sound. It was a week-end diversion sort of thing. You know, in the parlance of our dear "mayor", a personal time thing. The chemical that results from the combo of cocaine and alcohol is very toxic so I sort of let my self-respect take over.
FYI re the TMI:
I would be very wary of admitting that you’ve had a drug problem, that you own a gun, that you’ve been arrested and bootf--ked etc. on a public forum. Imagining that a screen name on Vbulletin makes you in any way anonymous in 2014 is very very naïve. Beyond the fact that datamining algorithms are increasing able to uniquely identify users by drawing together all of their online activities, Vbulletin itself was the target of a very serious hack late last year:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...7195-important-message-regarding-your-account
http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-...om-hacked-customer-data-stolen/d/d-id/1112660
Things to think about:
“More often now databases are being linked together, so that what you do online on a dating site or public forum under a pseudonym is increasingly easy to connect to what you’re doing online on Facebook or your Gmail or LinkedIn account, which is under your real name.â€
Alessandro Acquisti, Professor of Information Technology, Carnegie Mellon University,
“I never put anything in a email that I wouldn’t be ready to defend if it was published in a newspaper. Or, presented to me across the table by a lawyer. Because I know that those things can happen. Whether I want them to or not, they just, they happen to people all the time.â€
Kevin Slavin, Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
To me, this kind of caution is equally appropriate on a public forum.
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