I began having interest in privacy when I got refused for a job offer because I wrote some tips to crack the WiFi of neighbors and how to leverage a loophole in a public WiFi of a place I won't name. Never used WordPress again since that time, and never used my real name again.

Fortunately I never really used social networks, but heard of people having the same kind of problem with employers around the same time than me because of compromising pictures on Facebook (I think it was around 2010-13)