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So basically the only thing protecting our anonymity is the relative unpopularity of Lemmy?
To expand on this. If you are talking about anything online it is not private. That doesn't matter if it's in a WhatsApp chat, a telegram chat, a Lemmy post, a Facebook feed, etc. as soon as it hits a computer if someone wants to see it they will. There's just hurdles to get it.
If you want anonymity stop using computers.
Ain’t this the truth.
Here’s story about a serial killer being caught by a floppy drive’s meta data.
https://www.grunge.com/332018/heres-how-the-btk-killer-was-finally-caught/
Few things more fun than telling people who harp about vaccines being tracking chips that if they're worried about tracking they should ditch their smartphone, and watching them rage.
You mean the always-on GPS-enabled internet-connected microphone and camera which is also likely Bluetooth and NFC beaconing and contains all of my most personal data including my name, contacts, unencrypted chats facilitated by major cell phone carriers, photos, emails, and other personal files which are also likely synced with a cloud service operated by major multi-national corporations, and also stores biometric data such as facial recognition, fingerprints, time spent sleeping, and even heart rate and number of steps taken assuming you have "fitness" features enabled?
With those last couple items, these massive companies that regularly share data with law enforcement are literally tracking your every step and nearly every beat of your heart.
Well don't worry about that, I've got Express VPN.
Maybe the article is badly worded, but it seems like they got metadata from the file, not the floppy disk itself.
It was either the FAT file or the file itself. The case is famous.
Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing.
You're not anonymous online either FYI.
Depends what and how you do it. VPN gives some level of anonymity. TOR even more so. These give you probably greater anonymity than anything else you have in offline live.
Tell me you know nothing about computers without telling me you know nothing about computers.
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Says the guy licensing his own comments on social media.
Tell me you know nothing about copyright without telling me you know nothing about copyright.
😂 at least I'm not pretending I know anything about copyright
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I wanted to let you know that you’re honesty with this comment made me chuckle.
The internet is at it’s worst when it’s popular
The Federation of lemmy/mastodon instances is the worst part about it