Facebook is spooking me - privacy concerns

[John Case]

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.