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Should you leave red herrings about yourself online?

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-11 Cached

The article argues that for most people, planting fake personal details online as red herrings is ineffective against data brokers and serious adversaries, and can cause more harm than good, while pseudonyms and targeted decoys may be useful.

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