My Stanford webspace is going to expire in October at the latest, so I have migrated all my stuff to personal webhosting.
More and more, I’ve become increasingly uneasy with using my real name online. My main concern is identity theft – I keep a blog that is easily found by searching my name, and while I am aware that my blog is a public forum, some personal information inevitably ends up being posted here. Another issue is the googling of potential employees by potential employers. I think the stuff associated with myself online would make employers want to hire me, but you do lose some control of that personal info by making it public (and cached by Google forever). A third thing that makes me uneasy is the thought of various 3rd parties, including the government, retailers, and sentient malicious super computers spidering the web to extract data and maintain tabs on me personally.
In the past, I have always slapped my name on anything I put up online, because in the off-chance that it becomes recognizable, it’s good to have name recognition. After some consideration, I’ve decided to continue this practice as there have definitely been times in the past when being associated with my website (and all the various projects hosted therein) has opened doors. So after being worried about privacy issues to the point of adopting a pseudonym, I have swung the other way and registered www.shedletsky.com.
I got a pretty sweet hosting package from StartLogic with more space and bandwidth that I will ever need. I’ve been working on pruning my Stanford site down and moving it over here. I’ve also been working on EuclideanCrisis.com and getting that ready to go for when we have a demo video and a redistributable. Some have recently questioned the wisdom is registering two domain names that no one will ever be able to spell.
Euclidean Crisis Google count: 9
Identity Theft is so rampant these days because it is quite easy to harvest information from someone else.*.’
identity theft is rampant both in online and offline settings. better be careful.,’
identity is very common on the internet specially with those nigerian letter scam*`:
identity is rampant both online and offline, always make sure that you don’t share unecessary info about yourself’*,
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