[perching_aix]

My profile is not blank. You can page through all my comments, posts, and favorites to your liking.

Did you actually bother to understand what I said by the way? Are you able to formulate a post that isn't just a bare minimum asinine rhetorical question?

[gzread]

Other users who care about accountability publish their full name, email address, and sometimes phone number in their profile stat page. You don't.

If accountability is so important, why don't you share your identity here?

[perching_aix]

Because unlike you, I understand what I wrote.

Lots of text, I know. Relevant passage:

> The current ways of identity verification are broken, and are prone to enable surveillance: this is something I fully recognize. What I refuse to recognize however is that the concept of identity verification would be wrong wholesale. There was another thread on here a few days ago that I did comment on, but the bottom line is, in my understanding there's no mathematical reason that things would have to be this way. Its shortcomings, including its enablement of mass surveillance, are an implementation issue, not something fundamental to the idea per se.

The referenced thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201158

Put into more exact terms, your way of wanting to verify my identity is the same one you criticize governments and businesses for doing. It is not one I think is a good idea either, despite how you're trying to present this. I just retain the opportunity for there being other, better ways, whereas you don't.

Mind you, there's no reason to think that those who do publish such information do it because they're here to champion accountability. Note the type of forum this was originally supposed to be. It's in part a place for self-advertising. Many contact details you find on bios are visibly and explicitly HN specific.