I meant the about section of this page: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Craiggybear Unless you mean simply that you prefer to be "anonymous", in which case you should probably delete your account and stop posting here. A profile is just a boundary drawn around a collection of data. Everything you post online in an unencrypted format can be fed into a sufficiently capable program that can infer that the real offline You made this post. It can base that inference on other data it has access to from other sites you've posted on by noticing similarities in writing style, content, etc. If you don't want boundaries to be drawn around your public output, don't make it public and start using encryption.
