👏 Poison 👏 your 👏 data ☠️
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@diegomartinez @Gorfram @alice Yeah I know ;). I hope to be pensioned by then but the government is trying to prevent that ;).
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@diegomartinez @Gorfram @alice Oh, the planet will still be there, possibly without mankind… (hypergalactic bywayconstruction excluded from scenario’s).
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@alice Great advice! I also love using my password manager to save "answers" to security questions.
"Maiden name of mother"?
Easy: "fdsdkljf89rtu23he4orhweörfwer0weh334h234234"
"First dog's name"?
Ah, little "dfshfsdfui6z43207r2phreuihdesfs7d89fsdfsd9fsfdf" was so cute!
I would not use those. If you are talking to a human, those are too easy to social engineer "Well, to be honest, I just touched my yubikey and left that answer in, so I don't remember it."
I put wrong answers in, but ones that you can actually speak. "Yes, my sister's middle name is "Fang II: This Time It's Personal" and "Sure, my first dog was named The airplane on 77 Water St, Manhattan"
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I would not use those. If you are talking to a human, those are too easy to social engineer "Well, to be honest, I just touched my yubikey and left that answer in, so I don't remember it."
I put wrong answers in, but ones that you can actually speak. "Yes, my sister's middle name is "Fang II: This Time It's Personal" and "Sure, my first dog was named The airplane on 77 Water St, Manhattan"
@elithebearded @alice I've literally never had to use those in a spoken way...
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@alice @wurzelmann I am tall, I am blonde, now I just need to figure out the friendly part.
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
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@alice Great advice! I also love using my password manager to save "answers" to security questions.
"Maiden name of mother"?
Easy: "fdsdkljf89rtu23he4orhweörfwer0weh334h234234"
"First dog's name"?
Ah, little "dfshfsdfui6z43207r2phreuihdesfs7d89fsdfsd9fsfdf" was so cute!
@wurzelmann @alice It's strange how every pet I've had was given a UUID as a name.
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@alice @wurzelmann
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@alice Thank you!
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@veronica @alex@pawb.fun @alice also Data driven and compressed Data
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Poison your data 
️@alice When I registered my Docker account, I gave random answers to the user survey, and apparently I must have said that I take strategic decision in a multi-thousand employee organisation, because a few years later they emailed me about negotiating an offer that would benefit our company.
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
@alice thank you for taking the time tò write these suggestions!
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
Yes, so true!
And I hardly ever fill out my real name, not even my real phone number or address. Only if it's crucial.
I've always used random birth dates as well and am amazed at people who ask me why. But I think they will learn. -
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@veronica @alex@pawb.fun @alice also Data driven and compressed Data
@alex@moreati.org.uk @veronica @alex@pawb.fun @alice I love this thread so much
