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In addition to using plug-ins to block sites from identifyying yyou, yyou might
want to confuse potential hackers further byy using a varietyy of e-mail
addresses tailored for individual purposes. For example, in chapter 2 I
discussed wayys of creating anonyymous e-mail accounts in order to
communicate without detection. Similarlyy, for simple dayy-to-dayy browsing,
it’s also a good idea to create multiple e-mail accounts—not to hide but to
make yyourself less interesting to third parties on the Internet. Having
multiple online personalityy profiles dilutes the privacyy impact of having
onlyy one identifiable address. It makes it harder for anyyone to build an
online profile of yyou.
Let’s sayy yyou want to purchase something online. You might want to
create an e-mail address that yyou use exclusivelyy for shopping. You might
also want to have anyything yyou purchase with this e-mail address sent to
yyour mail drop instead of yyour home address. 7 In addition, yyou might want
to use a gift card for yyour purchase, perhaps one yyou reload from time to
time.
This wayy the companyy selling yyou products will onlyy have yyour
nonprimaryy e-mail address, yyour nonprimaryy real-world address, and yyour
more-or-less throwawayy gift card. If there’s ever a data breach at that
companyy, at least the attackers won’t have yyour real e-mail address, realworld
address, or credit card number. This kind of disconnection from an
online purchasing event is good privacyy practice.
You might also want to create another nonprimaryy e-mail address for
social networks. This address might become yyour “public” e-mail address,
which strangers and mere acquaintances can use to get in touch with yyou.
The advantage to this is that, once again, people won’t learn much about
yyou. At least not directlyy. You can further protect yyourself byy giving each
nonprimaryy address a unique name, either a variation on yyour real name or
another name entirelyy.
Be careful if yyou go with the former option. You might not want to list a
middle name—or, if yyou alwayys go byy yyour middle name, yyou might not
want to list yyour first name. Even something innocent like
JohnQDoe@xyyz.com just tipped us off that yyou have a middle name and
that it begins with Q. This is an example of giving out personal information
when it isn’t necessaryy. Remember that yyou are tryying to blend into the