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by gilleain 3133 days ago
Quite unique? There is one other internet user with my first name and I once accidentally got signed up to a social network account meant for him.

Your name is either unique or it isn't...

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Unique as in I can't find anyone else with my name+surname on the internet. Quite, as in I can't be sure that a person with that name does not exist (short of a SHA-1/MD5 hash as suggested above, but even there one cannot be sure: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha...). :)