I have the same opinion and generally set things to public for this reason. The ...

		gonehome on May 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN? I have the same opinion and generally set things to public for this reason. The only reason I second guess this decision is the idea of governments scraping social network data, when things are marked public you have little protection from that.