2017-05-05 12:24 GMT+02:00 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > I think that even if they are careful enough not to use their real name, > the identity of a mapper will often be easy to reconstruct if you have > access to just a little bit of extra information (might be as little as > a name on a doorbell). >
if I look at my "local area" in hdyc, there are probably a million people living within, but even if it were just a few thousand it would effectively not be possible to look at all those doorbells (where you won't have your name anyway if you are really concerned about privacy) and get a clue to which username this might be related. If you are living in a _very_ remote area (which most mappers are not), in very rare exceptional cases it might be possible to see who is which mapper, and that he mapped this remote area. Congratulations. What is the scenario? The chinese government? Your ex-wife? The NSA? Nazi-terrorists? Your friends? According to who it is, the countermeasures will have to be very different. Cheers, Martin
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