[sclitheroe]

Continuing on with the 7 degrees of separation and privacy disclosures coming from people that know you rather than from yourself, does anyone recall when Conan O’Brien friended that random person on Twitter? Imagine how easy it would have been for some random person to reach out to other people who moved in her Twitter circle to obtain the info they would need to wreak havoc with them...the mind boggles, and the scope of that exposure dwarfs a single MMO discussion board...again, you need never know the person’s real name directly, you could just start observing and interacting with those around her to piece it together..

Edit: I realize in that example she was already using her full name on Twitter, but it would hardly have made a difference, in my opinion - the exposure was so great that you’d have found someone, somewhere, who would have slipped up and given you the lead you would need.