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Here's to hoping mine here stays anonymous



I didn't save the comment but a long time ago I saw an account saying that there were people in google who could dox their coworkers on hacker news.

When you click threads its shows username in the url, so if you access at work someone could figure out who you are.


What do you mean? HN uses SSL so my understanding is the network just sees requests to HN from your device. Of course if you’re logged in on a work device that’s a different story.

Also I suppose side channel attacks are possible but it really depends on what your threat vector is.


My bad you're correct. My impression was they were implying it had something to do from within their setup at work. Should have left my comment at that.


Oh yeah I don't log in to any personal accounts on my work PCs

I think if some of my former coworkers saw my comments they might catch me, and a GPA certainly could, but in general a stranger would need to put in more than a few dollars of effort to get me




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