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* Many web sites require users to have a persistent user name which is unique on their site to identify the user. | * Many web sites require users to have a persistent user name which is unique on their site to identify the user. | ||
| − | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym Wikipedia defines] [[ | + | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym Wikipedia defines] [[Exonym]] as a common, external name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, or a language/dialect, that is used only outside that particular place, group, or linguistic community.[Exonyms exist not only for historico-geographical reasons, but also in consideration of difficulties when pronouncing foreign words. |
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Revision as of 13:48, 25 April 2021
Full Title or Meme
A Exonym is a name given to an entity by a foreign source, often in a different language.
Context
- Many web sites require users to have a persistent user name which is unique on their site to identify the user.
- Wikipedia defines Exonym as a common, external name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, or a language/dialect, that is used only outside that particular place, group, or linguistic community.[Exonyms exist not only for historico-geographical reasons, but also in consideration of difficulties when pronouncing foreign words.
Problems
- Users may wish to have some name that is not associated with their real name when the web site requires a persistent user name or they may wish to have separate Personas associated (e.g.) with their social self and their work self.
- In contexts where names are not validated (of low Assurance) the problem arises that trolls many adopt the name of some well-known person to be able to make statements that falsely appear to be from the real person.[1]
- While some users may think that separate Personas cannot be correlated, research has shown that this goal will not be possible[2][3] That reality does not prevent users from trying to use Pseudonyms to remain Anonymous, but it will never work against a determined adversary.
Solutions
- Users are often asked to use their email address as a local user name since the email address is known to be a URI and hence unique in the internet, at least for a period of time.
- When the user has an option, they often pick some sort of description name, such as a gamertag in a role playing game, which is tested for uniqueness within the relevant name domain.
- When a user needs to provide some sort of validated attribute for the duration of a session at a web site, a session ID might provide sufficient security to bind the verified attribute for the session duration.
References
- ↑ Jack Nicas, Oprah, Is That You? Most Likely, It's Not. 2018-07-08 New York Times page BU1
- ↑ Gina Kolata, Can Data be Fully Anonymous? New Algorithms can still identify you New York Times (2019-07-24) p A8.
- ↑ Luc Rocher, Julien M. Hendrickx, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative model (2019-07-23) Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3
Other Links
- Synonyms for an Exonym include Xenonym, Pseudonym ,i User Name, display name, Subject ID (sub).
- Anonym is not used in the context of identity as it does not provide one. It may be used as the condition (Anonymous) of a user prior to accepting (1) a cookie, (2) a fixed IP address, (3) an HTTPS connection or (4) a request for an Identifier.
