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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 426726" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>An even bigger problem can come up if there is any police activity in your family. I learned this the hard way with my sister's death. When she went missing I posted here constantly, seeing if any of our Oregon board members would keep an eye out for her. I used her first and last name with a picture because we were trying to find her. Then I also wrote on in subsequent posts about my fear this was a homicide, etc. Guess who found out I was posting about apparently this "top secret" case - even though it was on the news every night - the police. They told me I was breaching the confidentiality of their case, and took me out of being involved in the case. I was devastated to say the least. I had to fly back home to Dallas. And boy was I mad at myself for forgetting that every single thing we write here can be found by absolutely anyone if they need that info. </p><p></p><p>In fact I was just thinking this morning that I should take my dogs names off my bios, because all 3 have such unusual names, if someone knew me it would easy to figure out I am Steely. Matt on the other hand - there a million of those - so I am not really worried.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 426726, member: 3301"] An even bigger problem can come up if there is any police activity in your family. I learned this the hard way with my sister's death. When she went missing I posted here constantly, seeing if any of our Oregon board members would keep an eye out for her. I used her first and last name with a picture because we were trying to find her. Then I also wrote on in subsequent posts about my fear this was a homicide, etc. Guess who found out I was posting about apparently this "top secret" case - even though it was on the news every night - the police. They told me I was breaching the confidentiality of their case, and took me out of being involved in the case. I was devastated to say the least. I had to fly back home to Dallas. And boy was I mad at myself for forgetting that every single thing we write here can be found by absolutely anyone if they need that info. In fact I was just thinking this morning that I should take my dogs names off my bios, because all 3 have such unusual names, if someone knew me it would easy to figure out I am Steely. Matt on the other hand - there a million of those - so I am not really worried. [/QUOTE]
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