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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by ChildOfTheWheat
05/09/2015 6:08 pm
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Moderator
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You'll never see me endorse posting your numismatic activities on Youtube or Facebook. Keeping information out of the hands of miscreants is difficult enough without giving them alternate sources.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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You'll never see me endorse posting your numismatic activities on Youtube or Facebook. Keeping information out of the hands of miscreants is difficult enough without giving them alternate sources  Better to keep your mouth shut and fingers off the reply key. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Charles Morgan has the same link as coin hunting drew. So I shouldn't say my youtube Chanel SsDd?
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Moderator
United States
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That depends, SSK. Is there any way of finding anything else about you from that Youtube channel? Do you do anything else whatsoever with that nick? If so, do not connect it to numismatics.
I was a communications security type in the Army. My job was to try to bring together disparate tiny bits of communication data, and piece them together into something broader. Just like a jigsaw puzzle, once you have enough pieces together in the same spot you can begin to see how they all fit together.
So it is with your public online persona. Any little fact I can add to another one, connecting your numismatic activities (ha! This one collects coins. Burglary material.) with the other things you like/upload/post on Youtube....maybe - if you're incautious enough - I glean something from your Youtube account that gets me into your Facebook name.
At which point, it's all done for you. If you leave images, I can likely, eventually, decide where you were from the bits of info in the background of your selfies. Your Friends will fill in far more blanks about you than you wish they would regardless of how careful you are personally. And I'm looking through their places for references to you, and looking through your stuff for references to other places you spread information.
The Internet has turned the world into a very insecure place, and the newer generations don't even seem to have any sense of mistrust any more even though they're swimming in the most dangerous waters of all time.
There are places where your address - the address of someone known to collect something suitable as a burglary target - brings money on the black market.
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Moderator
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In truth, all I have to do is spend a while evaluating the quality of your collection, and then (since I'd already be a posting member here) if you were worth it I'd arrange a trade of some sort with you and then I'd have your address for free. So it wouldn't be as hard as all that above if you were worth actually selling on Darknet.
It's the ones who are local to you, the ones who find out you're a collector on Facebook or somewhere they can connect you to your Facebook etc., who you should be really afraid of.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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"The internet has turned the world into a very insecure place"
Exactly right SsuperDave.
Thats why I don't participate in YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or any other
social media site.
If I want someone to know something about me, I will tell them myself.
I don't need them finding my personal business on the internet.
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Pillar of the Community
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Moderator
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Good one; I like Dr. Tones' stuff. There's nothing wrong with sharing video information as long as you do your due diligence. Just don't fail to consider who might be watching.
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Pillar of the Community
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Yep, you have to be careful on the intdrnet. Here sis a WW2 propaganda poster that is perfect for Internet security, especially youtube.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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You'll never see me endorse posting your numismatic activities on Youtube or Facebook. Keeping information out of the hands of miscreants is difficult enough without giving them alternate sources. This can not be told enough. Not advertising anything of value is very, very important today. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Something rather scary happened on my disused YT channel, a channel I never thought people would notice and subscribe to anymore. A less-than-five-subscriber metal detectorist who showed off his coin findings subscibed to me.
It's been two years since there was activity, and nothing on my channel to show that I am a collector (since it was abandoned before I even started). They're mostly animated pixel art videos.
Edited by Altaira
05/10/2015 2:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Woah, freaky. I'm sure you were like  |
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It's been two years since there was activity, and nothing on my channel to show that I am a collector (since it was abandoned before I even started). They're mostly animated pixel art videos.
Is there any resemblance whatsoever between your name here (or anywhere else you talk things numismatic) and your name there? Contemplate that to a couple degrees' separation as well. I know I can make connections like that, and I'm hardly unique. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I've been using this username for several years with only variations on the presence of "97", mostly only on the very old ones where I'm not of age to join the online community yet.
The thing about my channel is that I never thought anyone would subscribe to a channel that has been disused for a long time, much less someone showing off coins.
I still kinda reget not looking up the meaning of the words in my username first, though...
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Valued Member
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The Internet has turned the world into a very insecure place, and the newer generations don't even seem to have any sense of mistrust any more even though they're swimming in the most dangerous waters of all time. Perhaps my question should be discussed in a separate thread about internet safety: I've been sorting through an inherited collection with the help of the CCF community. I'm almost done and getting excited to post pics of my "keepers". Are you suggesting that posting pics of valuable coins to share with the community would be a mistake? |
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