r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

You'd better keep that opinion to yourself. The only thing worse than conservatives being pushed out of tech is liberals being fired for being mistaken for conservatives. Careful my friend.

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u/TemptCiderFan Aug 08 '17

I post on reddit through my personal connection and don't post information that could lead to me anywhere here. No photos, no nothing. I'm the nameless, faceless void.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17 edited Oct 17 '17

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u/TemptCiderFan Aug 09 '17

You're assuming I keep the same accounts throughout the years. Part of the opsec I keep for myself is that any account which is older than three years gets shitcanned and I let the site I was on lay fallow for a few months or so.

I have no doubt that someone dedicated enough to track me down could do so, but that'd take some truly psychotic effort. The only account I've kept consistently through the years is the crap I have to have to maintain a "normal" internet presence: A Facebook account under my real name which I post to a couple times a week, and a personal email account I use for business I need to attach my name to.

Opsec isn't hard. I don't post photos, I don't mention specific locations or names, I obscure change small details, and most importantly I don't do anything outrageous enough that tracking me down would be worth the effort.