Fear of Posting?

[caviman001 (imported)]

how true riverwind once you make your first post it catches you and before you know it your answering other people on there posts. looking forwordto 2005 then i can be a true eunuch like so many happy others

[Blaise (imported)]

This is my favorite forum. I really do not care who knows who I am or that I post here. I assume that privacy is a thing of the past. Heck, I am proud to be included in this nutless mob. Still, I do assume that many other people do care that others not know that they post here.

It's a hard call. However, the integrity of the forum is more important.

Unfortunately, I long ago ran out of observations and comments about eunuchs and almost everything else that we discuss here. Please, somebody join the conversation. But lurking is okay.

:luv2lurk:

[Orchard (imported)]

For a long while, I’ve been noticing that the same few names keep appearing on most of the posts on the Archive. I finally sat down to do some figuring.

The Eunuch Archive has nearly 7,000 registered members. As of today, only 1,011 have made even a single post. Only 633 have made two or more posts. The top 25 post-happy members have made over 50% of all the posts on the Archive, 18,782 of them. That’s less than one-third of one percent of all the members making 50% of the posts!

If you break down and make only a SINGLE post to the Archive, you are automatically in the top one-sixth of all the registered members here. If you can push yourself to make a second post, you’ve reached the top 10%.

I’m sure that most of those who read the Archive (which can be done without registering) and who have then taken the time to register their membership have questions to ask or comments to make. We are one of the friendliest and most helpful places that I’ve found anywhere on the Internet. We value your comments and will try to find answers to your questions.

Any post that you make is nearly anonymous. It can be traced back only as far as the name you’ve chosen for yourself and the information that you gave when you set up your account, such as your birthday, if you listed it.

Don’t be shy! Join the conversation.

Wow and there I was feeling guilty.

I suppose the real problem is that most of us aren't afraid but just dead boring.....

Orchard

[Karisma (imported)]

I don't get how this is even possible. If you have data on a region of your harddrive. And then you go over that place replacing all the ones and zeros that is the data with a random pattern thereof(ones and zeros). How does the overwritten data survive?

Does it somehow still linger on to the magnetic field or whatever? Becouse I'd think companies would have made a fotune by now if this was so, allowing storage of 7X on harddrives. A 5GB harddrive could store 40GB and so on..

Tis' weird.

[kb57z (imported)]

I don't get how this is even possible. If you have data on a region of your harddrive. And then you go over that place replacing all the ones and zeros that is the data with a random pattern thereof(ones and zeros). How does the overwritten data survive?

There are several different parts to it....

Firstly, 'deleting' a file usually means that the patches of disk being used by the file are added to the list of patches of disk that can be used for new files. The patches themselves are not actually overwritten until they are reused, so that in the interim the old content is still in existence, although not easily found.

On top of this, there are imprecisions in the way that the data is written onto a disk, which mean that even after the data has been overwritten, there may be 'ghost traces' left behind which can be extracted by specialist means.

'Industrial-strength' operating systems tend to have facilities which allow paranoid users to ensure that their sensitive files are repeatedly overwritten with random patterns on deletion.

Not that it's much use in dealing with the copies of the file on the disaster-recovery backup tapes....

It is, anyway, all very much a case of how much it'll cost to do it.

If The Authorities really wanted EA members' IP addresses, they would find it much easier to descend on BME's network provider with a court order and a high-end firewall box with the appropriate infrastructure for collecting logging data.

[Karisma (imported)]

Ahh, thank you. I already knew that "deleting" something usually just means it writes in the begging of a cluster/sector.. erhm, or whatever that X places beyond this places is to be considered up for grabs/empty.

I guess it makes some sense, that about the ghost traces that is. Makes me a wee more paraonid, my hardrive(s) is already encrypted with 448 bits blowfish encryption and my password is over 40 signs in lenght . But at some time the data was somewhere else.. and thus maybe still readable despite being "wiped" a few times.. do'h!

When I get another harddrive I shall encrypt it right from the beginning and then copy all the data to it, THEN burn my current harddrives ... that should keep those filthy bastards in black vans and silent helicopters from getting my recipe for apple pie!

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About the fear topic. I agree that if authority actually wanted the data they could get it.

But I do see the reason for needing some superficial anynamisity (seesh, can never spell that word). I struggled at the start of registration with choosing my ordinary nickname which also happens to be my name and part of the IRL-nickname that everyone calls me by. Or to go a wee more undercover. I'm not a celebrity but I am, shall we say 'known' amongst some groups(not so small ones actually) in this part of the world and also on the internet of course (in the same line of society).

What i'm concerned about is not any government but moreso if anyone would Google on my name(which seems to happen frequently according to google stats) they would end up on certain places that is probably not so very socialy accepted or understood and assosiate me with it. I mean.. I have not yet said much that could probably be used against me, but the assosiation and rumour nomatter what would be enough to cause quite a few... problems.

And in the circuits I walk about I can not afford to have that. But at the same time I don't want to stop going places and persueing interests and questions.

So I would suggest to anyone hesitant that they simply use a nickname that might have some meaning(mine does, primarily nostalgic ones) but can't be linked to their IRL-persons/lifes. And after that there is minimal risk me thinks.

I do enjoy participating alot more then lurking that's for sure.

[Riverwind (imported)]

This is my favorite forum. I really do not care who knows who I am or that I post here. I assume that privacy is a thing of the past. Heck, I am proud to be included in this nutless mob. Still, I do assume that many other people do care that others not know that they post here.

It's a hard call. However, the integrity of the forum is more important.

Unfortunately, I long ago ran out of observations and comments about eunuchs and almost everything else that we discuss here. Please, somebody join the conversation. But lurking is okay.

:luv2lurk:

Im with you, my doctors know, my friends know (well there all here posting as well) my ex, and kids all know, so I have nothing to hide. It does make life a lot easer.

River

[JeffEunuch (imported)]

That I've made at least a few posts puts me amongst the top 10% re participation.

While I'm interested in what people think and say in this list serve with respect to a variety of related topics, I nevertheless often choose not to participate in specific discussions or threads. Often I'm not interested in a specific discussion. At other times I do feel that being a gay male with little transgender interest and an ordinary lust for sex as both a top and bottom makes me a small minority in dicussions. While ballless (by choice, but with medical reasons as well) and interested in genital mods, I do not necessarily identify as a eunuch.

I'm unconcerned that others will know I've been castrated and have only a wrinkled sac between my legs - with 2 rings inserted since a month ago. I'm not shy about being nude in public and that others will notice my balllessness. I'm comfortable with my body generally and without balls.

I'll continue to participate in those discussions in which I'm interested.

[A-1 (imported)]

Hmmm,

Apparently nobody has ever dealt with high powered magnets., huh?

A-1

[talula]

JeffEunuch you bastard...

Speak up as you wish. We need to chat more often.

tal