Winning (and Quitting) the Privacy Game: What it REALLY takes to have True Privacy in the 21st Century; or How I learned to give in and embrace EXIF tags

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Presented at derbycon 2017 by

Tim Malcomvetter

"The privacy vs. technology debate rages on. So many people say they want “total privacy,” but so few people are *actually* willing to put in the effort it takes to achieve it. They expect total privacy while still embracing modernity. I took the challenge and forced my wife and kids to come along, too, managing to lawfully remove all associations between my identity and my actual physical address, save for two obscure databases—still, that was enough to stifle a whole slew of invited hackers and law enforcement officers from winning a table stakes game: learning the physical address where we put our heads on our pillows every night for the past few years, despite the fact that we still used technology, social media, and paid electric bills.