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Not only that, there's also swatting.

The problem with swatting is not that you can find people’s home address. It’s that with an anonymous phone call you can send hyped up untrained dangerous fake army men to someones house with no repercussions for you or the team.

Hiding your home address is just a workaround.

What's your home address?

You can find it in the Whois information for my domain

That's too much effort. I guess your workaround worked after all.

There is a difference between not connecting this account to my real life identity and keeping my address a secret. If you knew my name you can just look up my phone number and address in the public phone book.

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