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… all of which is futile as long as NSA records everything and their databases will leak one day.
by sophistication 8y ago
… all of which is futile as long as NSA records everything and their databases will leak one day.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 8y agoAnonymity will always be greater than privacy. What I'm saying is that there should be a focus on being anonymous without a care (almost) of what you're doing.
- sophistication 8y agoI just think it's a futile kind of paranoia. Your anomalous behavior puts you on some list. Writing about it here puts you on some list. As every admin knows so well, spying on user data is much too easy for that not being done all over. We'd need to tear down large scale digital infrastructure to make even a dent into the problem of massive abuse potential. Deleting cookies is cope.
- SpaceManNabs 8y agoDepending on the context, platform, and data, de-anonymization is almost trivial to perform. Worse, someone can replicate your patterns and masquerade as you (thinking about that "lodestar" opinion where people were debating whether it was Pence or not).
- mr_overalls 8y agoA possible threat does not mean a probable one.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 8y agoWhy live if you're mortal?