10 May
2010
10 May
'10
12:14 p.m.
On Sun, 2 May 2010, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Yes, I can get rid of my account.
Notice that the information you and your friends have leaked cannot be recalled. It is almost certainly sitting in some corporate or federal database out there, ready to be mined some day.
Today, you can easily store ~MByte for each warm body on this planet in a single rack -- or a GByte in a single datacenter. And an elephant never forgets.
But that is positively correlated to the ability to completely hide your tracks online with a fairly mid-range level of technical sophistication. It doesn't take too much to hide your tracks - at least from a braindead sorting algorithm.