>>This crap that keeps coming up is serious.
Don't tell me there's been more?!
/edit/ OK, I saw the reference.
IMHO the risks of online presence extend far beyond UT. You'd be surprised how easy it can be to track most people via Facebook and other public sites... for example, the person you mention in this case is quite easy to locate via Google, including his current employer and domicile city.
To prevent such troubles, you are all hereby invited to join the Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society, here at the end of the earth. The society is exceedingly difficult to find, as are most of its members.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
