If you’re trying to prevent an online persona from being tied to your real identity, then you just have to be incredibly paranoid about anonymity. It’s not enough to hide your name, you have to consider hiding anything that makes you identifiable. If I knew somebody was a software engineer, well I wouldn’t know how to find out who they were. If I knew they were a software engineer from Arkansas who contributed to Rust projects, all of a sudden my search would have been narrowed down significantly.
If you want to prevent somebody who knows your identity from finding your phone number, address, etc... good luck. Whether somebody can find that would pretty much boil down to how much effort they’re willing to invest.
Source: I used to do some of these sorts of OSINT investigations as part of a fraud investigations team.
If you want to prevent somebody who knows your identity from finding your phone number, address, etc... good luck. Whether somebody can find that would pretty much boil down to how much effort they’re willing to invest.
Source: I used to do some of these sorts of OSINT investigations as part of a fraud investigations team.