Handles, real names, and being non-paranoid

[Amiga4k]

In an ideal world, phishers and spammers would not exist. Their existence would be the bane of society, and such scum would be hunted down, neutered, and branded with a big "W" on their foreheads and their rear-ends. But this is not an ideal world.  :madashell:

Then, there are the idiots of the world. Not to offend the truly blameless low IQ, I must clarify my rant.

Everyone on the internet uses a "handle", psuedo-name, or moniker to protect their legal name from being harvested by the dreaded phisher and scammer software.

Now, Amiduffer has committed the most absolute sin. He has posted a persons legal name. :madashell:  :pissed:

[odin]

 :-?

[motorollin]

Care to enlighten us as to what you're on about?

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moto

[adz]

I don't really give a f*** about who knows my real name, of the hundreds of images I have published online, you can find my name quite easily, so someone posting my name here is of no consequence. Thats the biggest problem with the internet, it is the anonymity. Thats why scammers and the like can pretty much get away with anything. Srew anonymity, if you don't want people to know who you are, you have no place on the internet.

[Karlos]

My handle is my normal nickname.

[jkirk]

my handle is a hybrid of my real name.

[Wilse]

Karlos wrote:
My handle is my normal nickname.

Likewise, although the number of people who still call me Wilse is very small.

Apart from that my whole name is in my profile anyway.

[Karlos]

Wilse wrote:

Apart from that my whole name is in my profile anyway.

Mine is, or was. Still is. Not sure... does it matter? :lol:

[Wilse]

I guess not. :-D

[bloodline]

My Handle was choosen as an 'omarge to the rather poor Recoil Album "Bloodline"... it sounded cool... to my 16years old ears, and was pertty much unique (I know of no other bloodlines). Thus it has stuck with me for the past 11 years! :-o

-Edit- Originally used just for IRC, but latter used on Internet Forums and other login requirements.

[AJCopland]

My handle IS my name (Initials plus surname) :-D

...and definately not an operating system that was never finished, nor a terrible film and neither is it the name of a famous composer :-P

Andy

[mick_aka]

My handle is also my name, there's about a hundred websites and forums where you can find out my name is Mick Hayes.

[cecilia]

my name is a government secret

 :devildance:

[NoFastMem]

Amiga4k wrote:
Everyone on the internet uses a "handle", psuedo-name, or moniker to protect their legal name from being harvested by the dreaded phisher and scammer software.

Actually, it's usually so they can talk sh*t and not get beaten up in real life.

[motorollin]

My handle is the comment some benchmarking software made about my CPU :-D

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moto