Monday, March 5, 2007

HOW TO: Remain Private in Public.


filed under: HOW TO: by Lux Nightmare | 2 Comments

Ducky taught me to be careful.

“Don’t tell them any identifying information about yourself,” she said. “Don’t even mention the name of your school.”

Don’t say the name Columbia. Call it “my school,” call it “the Ivy League school,” call it something vague, something untraceable.

“Someone could show up at your school and just wait outside the gates for you,” she said.

It had happened before. It had happened to her. You couldn’t be too careful.

This is how I learned to navigate the Internet: don’t tell anyone where you work. Don’t tell anyone where you live. Don’t tell anyone where to find you at any time, or what your real name is, or what anyone’s real name is, for that matter.

Everything else is fair game.

And I do mean everything.

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