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Comment by janalsncm | Hacker News Reader

One way this manifests is in online profiles. You can have a professional blog, where you discuss professional things like how you squashed an annoying software bug or a little-known quirk of your favorite language. The purpose of this is to bolster your career prospects, although there can be sub-goals like forcing yourself to learn a new thing.

And you can have a personal account where you anonymously discuss things that are important to you. Maybe some of these things will irritate some people. Most opinions that aren’t completely banal will.

And the two can never touch.

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The problem usually lies in the intersection: you want to write about an important work topic (management, broken tech interviews).

It’s going to be really juicy when Blind is hacked one day.

And then your opsec fails and the two touch.

And then it blows up! https://youtu.be/uPG3YMcSvzo

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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