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An easy way to disguise your behavior is to steal someone else's username. Pick a popular user on a popular site, and then assume their name on a new service.



It would have been rather uncomfortable to have been a Tor user with "Dread Pirate Roberts" as a username, if you knew nothing about Silk Road and happened to be a Princess Bride fan.




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