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Monday, 18 November 2024
Going dark?
I'm certainly not done posting on this forum, but I'm not sure how much longer I will be able to do so. The platform host is making it almost impossible to carry forward as an anomymous blog: they no longer allow me to log in just using my password, which means that I have to compromise my anonymity every time I post. Unless I can find a secure way of signing in, I won't be posting anything controversial here from now on out. So I may as well add now, that a comment which subsequently disappeared before I could approve it, noted that Donn Ketchum has quietly passed away.
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If you register a business brand with the IRS, and use only the business name in cyberspace, then it's possible for cyber-enemies to trace your real identity but it's tedious, time-consuming, and unprofitable enough that ordinary pests don't bother.
ReplyDeleteBanks, who presumably have an interest in directing robbers away from the banks and toward their customers' homes, are currently allowed to balk and sulk when your business brand's ONLY address is a mail drop. Paypal used to help. Now they don't. Banks demand a physical address where people think they can show up and harass you. So far the only way I've found to deal with this, short of making enough money to lease a physical store, is not to receive payment online.
Nevertheless, it works. My screen name was chosen because it looks like a name someone might use in real life but, at the time I registered it as a brand, nobody else was using it in cyberspace. My real name contains some, but not most, of the same letters.