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>Well, the rig utility can help, it creates a random identity. For some reason rig will never generate an identity that lives in Utah.

Heh, I was curious why that is. Was the author from UT? Afraid of breaking some laws? After looking at the source, the author has a list of 60 or so cities and they're spread across 25 states: SC, AZ, TX, OH, KS, IA, WI, MI, NJ, NY, PA, IN, VA, NC, RI, TN, WA, MS, CA, IL, CO, FL, GA, MN, NE. So UT was not the only one omitted.

Oh well, at least my curiosity was satisfied.



Is there something similar which also creates email adresses and stores the generated profiles in a database in order to retrieve them again later? May be even have the ability to store associated passwords?


Fakenamegenerator[1] will generate disposable email addresses based on the identity it cooked up. No https without paying, though...

[1]: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com


Good idea. This would occasionally be a valuable function to include in a password manager.


where can you actually find the code? For whatever reason, I can't get it from my centos distro (yum search rig, doesn't show anything related). And googling "linux rig command", I don't see any links to the actual source.



from the comment further down, you can browse Ubuntu packages, and I found it here:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/misc/rig




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