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Tommymac

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10. Anything posted on the Web is preserved in some form or another.
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 11:53 AM
Jan 2021

There is NO privacy in electronic communications unless it is encrypted traffic. And even then in a National Emergency the NSA can likely read it through back doors.

The public may not have access to them, but there are multiple backups, archives, email relay servers, trails of code sent over the wire or Cell and cached in routers and other devices. Pics and vid once posted will be stored or saved online somewhere. Future historians will have a field day.

Remember that if you ever plan on doing bad things. Go ahead and use encryption and the Dark Web, but realize it is by no means foolproof.

That's why I laugh everytime some fool says 'but privacy' online. For most laymen online privacy is largely a myth.

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