I’d learned how to manage identities I’d learned how the scene worked.” “In my case, I had a couple previous identities,” he said, “but when I changed to The Dark Tangent, I was making a clear break from my past. During the dot-com boom, many hackers transitioned to “real jobs,” he said, “and so they had to have real names, too.” He also remembers when everything changed. “My address book doubled in size,” he said with a laugh. And in time, as Defcon’s popularity ballooned, his list of formal appointments grew, too: membership at the Council on Foreign Relations, a seat on President Obama’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. “The thing I worry about today,” he added, taking a more serious tone, “is that people don’t get do-overs.” Young people now have to contend with the real-name policy on Facebook, he said, along with the ever-hovering threats of facial-recognition software and aggregated data. “How are you going to learn to navigate in this world if you never get to make a mistake - and if every mistake you do make follows you forever?”įor Mr. Harewood, maintaining his alias is partly about creating a personal brand - a retro nod, in a sense, to the era when using a hacker handle was a more essential element of the trade. “In a way,” he said, “it just helps me filter my communications.” “And I’m still not all that comfortable communicating with people on my Facebook profile, under my real name.” “People want to reach out all the time,” he said.
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