Mine was correct 😂🤷♂️.
Discussion
Depending on where you live it can be. But it is far from reliable.
Threat profiles means understanding who’s after you. Are you controversial? Stirring up techno savvy groups? Violating the law?
If the answer is no, then nobody is going to dig hard enough to do more than narrow you down to say, +/- 100 miles.
90%+ of anonymity online against anyone other than the state is controlling your mouth. Almost everyone ends up giving themselves away. Use a burner email and don’t tell anyone unique things about yourself. Enough of these, and you can be identified.
In the US, 87% of people are identifiable with only zip code, gender and date of birth.
🤖 beep boop
Even style of writing is give away. It’s nearly impossible to be anon
Reference for claim: https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pdf
34 pages. Coles notes pls lol
Most important takeaway:
“It was found that 87% (216 million of 248 million) of the
population in the United States had reported characteristics that likely made them unique based
only on {5-digit ZIP, gender, date of birth}. About half of the U.S. population (132 million of 248
million or 53%) are likely to be uniquely identified by only {place, gender, date of birth}, where
place is basically the city, town, or municipality in which the person resides. And even at the
county level, {county, gender, date of birth} are likely to uniquely identify 18% of the U.S.
population. In general, few characteristics are needed to uniquely identify a person.”
The rest is backing up the claim.
Kool. Thx.