Forum Signature, Put your REAL name in it!

[patooyee]

In the past 10 years I've probably fired 10 employees for calling in "sick" and then seeing pics of them at the bar that night on their or their friend's FB pages.

Sorry, but you're no more invincible online than you are in real life.

 

[untchabl]

Sure, why not. I'm to boring for people to stalk me. Lol

 

[onepieceatatime]

Got it! Calling people by screen names on the trail does get pretty old.

 

[s10me]

I didn't figure anybody wanted to know my name!!!

 

[Neal3000]

Does this make it easier for someone to steal your identity?

 

[pholmann]

Does this make it easier for someone to steal your identity?

If someone wants to steal your identity they will regardless. They need your SS# for that. Which any good hacker can find that info.

 

[TBItoy]

Re: Re: Re: Forum Signature, Put your REAL name in it!

Does this make it easier for someone to steal your identity?

Not any easier than having a Facebook, or business cards, or you name listed anywhere public (like race results/awards/etc)

 

[Nuts]

Kinda going along with the identity theft topic switch... i never understood why people block out the license plate when putting picturs of their truck inline, thousands of people see that number every day when you're driving around.

 

[LandSpeeder]

You personally don't have to be "online" in any form to have your identity stolen.
That statement is true because your information is already there, in databases, forms, lists. Hackers do not steal identities from individuals directly they steal them from hacked lists that are sold on the black market.

I'm not in the online security business, but I do help folks with securing PC's, networks, what-have-you on a personal level.
At this point in the game, the best thing you can do is to be "proactive" by being "reactive" with the big three credit bureaus as well as Fair Isaac (FICO). Check these at the very least, quarterly, and dispute directly with each any information that is not accurate.

Use cash, and NEVER use your debit card as a Credit Card... ever. Always insist they swipe it as a debit transaction. Which even then, they may still.... but that's OK, because you're checking your credit reports, remember.

 

[TacomaJD]

Re: Re: Re: Forum Signature, Put your REAL name in it!

Kinda going along with the identity theft topic switch... i never understood why people block out the license plate when putting picturs of their truck inline, thousands of people see that number every day when you're driving around.

I always thought that was dumb too.

 

[LightBnDr]

Say you have a gorgeous classic 85 model short bed Chev sitting in the your garage or driveway in the background. You post up a pic of your wife's car you wanna sell. You don't block the plate number. So I'm a stranger cruisin the classifieds. A Mexican dude who knows I can make big money on an 85 lowered short bed down across the border. I see your pic but I zoom in and see that badass 85 in the background. I zoom back out and grab your wife's plate number. I call my buddies girlfriend who does registration stickers and say I found this old plate in the bed of my truck, can you see who used to own it? I give her your wife's plate number. She says who it belongs to. I say dang, where does that lady even live? She says oh dang she lives like 20 minutes from you. I say, holy cow that's weird.

I drive by your house a couple times and see that 85 there. In a couple weeks me and my buddy come by while you're at work and take your 85. Now you're ****ed.

Chances are if you didn't block your plate number then you're the same guy that invites strangers to your house to look at your wife's car. So you made it easier for me to see your badass 85 short bed. I didnt even have to bug my buddies girlfriend.

Make sense? That's why you keep your life private because of **** bags that walk among us.

 

[TBItoy]

Re:

So basically, don't let people see things you own because they might get stolen.... Right...

 

[patooyee]

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So basically, don't let people see things you own because they might get stolen.... Right...

I see his point from a different perspective. Say you have internet enemies / e-enemies. You can't say anything on the internet any more without pissing someone off. Maybe they would come throw a rock through your window or some **** if they only knew where you lived. Now they can get your address from your for sale ad.

Or what if some sex-trade dealer sees your wife's Facebook pics of your 3-year old daughter and figures he could get a bunch of money for her in Saudi Arabia. He takes the FB pics, auctions her off on whatever site he does it on, gets your address from the plate in your for sale ad, comes and watches for his chance, next thing you know your daughter is being anally raped for the rest of her life by a 400-lbs hairy oil king who keeps her locked up in his dungeon.

Sorry, there's just no way to be too safe on the internet. I tell my wife not even to post anything on her FB page but she still does. I purposely don't like any of her posts from my business page (I don't have a persona page) so that people who think they got some bad ribs at my place don't feel like they need to take it out on my daughter.

Yes, there are other ways to get your address, or any info, but why make it any easier on them?

 

[LandSpeeder]

JEEBUS. It's a fuggin name in a forum signature. Do it or don't do it. But please stop explaining your entire life then saying "I don't want someone to know it".
THIS thread can be seen by everyone, even anonymous lurkers. FB can't.

 

[LightBnDr]

...... Who is Marcellus Wallace?

 

[muddinmetal]

...... Who is Marcellus Wallace?

Does he look like a bitch?

 

[5BrothersFabrication]

 

[Nuts]

So you guys think crazy stalker people only look for you online? I understand wanting to be safe, but more weirdos see you driving around than will see a picture on an offroad website. I don't know most of you on here but I doubt many of you are interesting enough or worth stalking

 

[patooyee]

The original comment about the license plates was about people who post on more common public places like CL I thought? I wouldn't be so worried about Hardline personally but in all honesty shitty people lurk here too. And when it comes to my daughter I don't take chances that are easy to avoid. It would take me literally all of maybe 3 seconds to blur out a license plate using free pre-installed Windows Paint. Pretty cheap time investment considering the potential consequences.

In case you haven't noticed, I don't **** around with my family's safety. I hesitate mentioning them, even here. I'd prefer most don't even know I have a family. I don't talk about how I protect my household. I don't post pics of guns, knives, permits, or what not. I don't tell people where I live. I don't like things with my business FB page having to do with my family. I don't announce when I am going out of town. I generally try not to even mention when I am going wheeling so that people don't know that my wife and daughter will be home alone. I've never shared a single thing having to do with my family with public circles on my G+ page. I don't tell people in real life how I would defend myself if I had to. Basically, none of that **** is anyone's business. I prefer any potential assailant / wrong doer to be surprised by my capabilities. Do I trust you guys? Mostly, yes. It just isn't necessary that you know all that ****.

At Morris Mountain one time a guy came into our camp site with some of his buddies. They walked out of the dark from behind me. One of them was kind of huddling in the dark by my truck. They came to start trouble. It was about 15 of them with about 15 of us. I didn't even know who they were or what was going on at first. One of them bowed up on on of my buddies. I was sitting in my campfire chair and when they did I started formulating a plan in my mind about how I was going to knock the guy in front of me into the camp fire, grab a log and bash another one's brains in. One of my other buddies got between them and they left camp. I later found out that the guy who was huddling by my truck was actually pissing on it hoping I would see it, jump up, and start a brawl. They came to start **** over some internet beef one of my buddies had started. I guess I was a part of the thread because someone mentioned patooyee and one of my buddies pointed me out. I have no clue what they were angry about to this day or who they were. They never even mentioned the specific beef in the thread. We only figured out that it was internet BS later the next day when we heard a spectator talking about how a group of red-necks were trying to get into a fight with another group of guys over an internet thread the night before. Point is they were obviously up to no good and I was mentally preparing to kill them if I had to, and it was all over an internet beef that I didn't even know about.

Sorry, not everyone on the 4x4internet is good people.

No, stalkers aren't an online exclusive. But they seem to be an online abundance.

 

[kmcminn]

How do you pronounce Patooyee? Always wondered.