Posted By:
martin dalziel
I'm a British immigrant with an FBI file (all legal immigrants have one). If some guvment person wants to spend their time hunting down my internet activity and ends up adding "vintage baseball card collector" to my file, sobeit. It might elicite a few questions as to why this Brit is so passionate about turn of the century American sports, but if thats the only blemish on my record I can live with it.
If its 'identity theft' you're after, then i can come up with probably twenty easier ways to go down that path, than mining email and signature addresses from internet forums.
While i do understand some peoples' caution and desire to remain anonymus, most every one of us is in more databases and on more lists than we could ever imagine, so for me, one more piece of data out there isn't really going to register.