SwiftOnSecurity

And remember, the people who run the platforms you troll have your data and correlations, and they have a say. Or the people that hack them in four years will. See the people getting burned down based on a hacked neo-nazi forum that went offline in 2016.

One time someone took my username, and used a flaw in Minecraft’s legacy account system to find my registered email address, which was under a different identity. They then jumped back further from there. These metadata cross-pollination events are utterly rife over a lifetime.

Sure, you can be a troll and pull stunts where you never get the real heat on you, or don’t try to cohabitate the platforms you screw around on and keep relatively clean opsec, but all it takes is that little moment in time. Random chance. That tears down your life and reputation

This thread is really targeting any edgelord teens who don’t know how close the precipice is, rather than trying to help neo-Nazis not get fired from Dave’s Scubadiving Emporium, but yeah.

Another aspect of this: A lot of high profile trolls end up not actually being anonymous. They just don't care, and everybody in the community knows they don't care, and so it looks like they're anonymous to people looking at a fight from the outside.

Mistaking the extremely callous actions taken by someone with actual impunity, as something you yourself can do without consequence, is going to burn you incredibly hard. You know nothing about what it has cost them, and how deranged they must be to accept it.

There's plenty of people who know who I am, I just don't give them any reason to discuss it. This is how actual privacy and discretion works in the real world, outside of incredible cloisterous effort. The sooner you appreciate this the better.

(Some of my Twitter threads are actually me talking to younger me so just go with it)

https://twitter.com/da_667/status/1347709762859839488 …

Just talked with someone who generally already knew where I lived, based on the construction as seen in a door picture I posted a long time ago. I swear to god. OSINT will take you to the cleaners.

If you ever wonder why the only areas you see me post are very narrow computer and home rack pics, it's because I know how many unique signals exist outside my awareness of possibility.

This is the crux of the thesis: A lot of "private" people, are actually flares in the night. It's just that nobody cares who they are, and may not care for many years. They grow complacent because they think they haven't been found. But they aren't even being hunted. Not yet.