The idea that scattering posts across the under a fake name keeps you safe may no longer hold:

"If ' success in deanonymizing people improves, the researchers warn, governments could use the techniques to unmask online critics, corporations could assemble customer profiles for 'hyper-targeted advertising', and attackers could build profiles of targets at scale to launch highly personalized social engineering ."

Dan Goodin for @arstechnica:

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arstechnica.com/security/2026/

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