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The Man Who's Kept His Face Off the Internet for 20 Years
An anonymous reader writes: Jonathan Hirshon is a 48-year-old Silicon Valley PR guy. He was an adult when the internet went mainstream, and he went online with a unique bit of forethought: "I decided to play a game with myself: How long could I keep my picture off the Internet." He's managed to keep the internet free of his image for two decades, and he's expanding the game. Hirshon is rallying the troops to outsmart Facebook and Google facial recognition. He asked his friends, "If you're so inclined, take a moment and tag me in some random picture or image. A leaf on the wind, a howler monkey, geometry equations, George Clooney, a large steaming pile of excrement—select an image that you think best suits me or [is] based solely on your whim."
I'm just a few years younger and my face is not on the internet either, despite publishing youtube videos, etc..
"I decided to play a game with myself: How long could I keep my picture off the Internet."
A game which he will probably shortly lose, since the first rule about keeping your photo off the internet is not to brag about how you've kept your photo off the internet.
(ack: "Posted by Soulskill on 2015-08-08 0:03 from the good-luck-after-this-article dept.")
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
between the two greatest pasttimes of internet users: "laziness" and "being a dick". Which one will win?!
Greg Egan claims there are no photos of him on the Internet either, although I wonder how you could possibly verify that.
This is my real face ---> :-)
Somebody posted it years ago and now it's everywhere! Maybe you've re-posted it and not known the harm you were doing. Please stop.
You won't find mine either. I've been on the net since before www, but you won't find a picture of me. Go ahead, please, try. You have my email address and from that you can get my last name and address. First person to send me a link to an image of my face I'll send you a bottle of nice Irish or an old Motorola HT, your choice.
-- I have a private email server in my basement.
Meh, not everything here has to be news per se - it's a discussion topic. One of the best parts of this place (sometimes...) is the discussion.
The Goatse Guy also kept his face off the Internet. However, the other end was not so fortunate.
Table-ized A.I.
or randomly filmed him in a public location and uploaded the video to youtube? I ask for a picture so we can validate his claim.. There's just no other way!
I once had a UK police officer officer call me in Holland (on my mobile phone) to ask why my car was parked too long in the UK, had I abandoned it? The owner, of the house it was parked outside, was complaining.
I explained to the police officer that the woman thinks she owns the road outside, and my car is a taxed and legally parked car on the street and the woman uses the police to harass me, because she doesn't like a dirty car outside her house.
The rozzer got from my car plate to home address and from my home address to my mobile phone records to my telephone number, all without a warrant or good reason.
They simply assume all people in uniform as the good guys and all purposes they ask for records are good purposes. Instead I had this repeated telephone call from different police to harrass me about the car I'd legally parked on the street, and each one had a hefty roaming charge.
When I returned to move the car and stop the calls, the woman came out to gloat at her victory.
So much for the right to privacy. It struck me that the police had my location (from the cell phone location record), my call history and photograph and no checks on how it was used. And we found out Murdochs papers pay policemen to give them these records, so the leaks are just the tip of the iceberg.
Way to throw down the gauntlet, Mr Hirshon.
I've got $10 that says this guy's dick pix will be all over the Internet by Sunday. Or, we'll find out that he's the subject of the most famous ass pic ever.
You are welcome on my lawn.