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Wait until some enterprising district attorney confiscates your hard drive, surmises you frequent HN, subpoenas your voting history from pg, finds this thread and examines which anti-governement/pro-common-sense comments you up voted.

Everything you say (and/or write) may be used against you.

Have a nice day :)




They wouldn't have to go through PG either, votes can be lifted from the URL log that your provider is required to keep.


Sadly, my privacy is probably slightly more protected from such things on this highly monitored Army owned machine running on a secured and monitored network, than on my home computer. The DoD actually seems to care more about PII (Personally Identifiable Information) more than most other organizations, I suspect in large part because the people setting the regulations are also susceptible to them.


>Wait until some enterprising district attorney confiscates your hard drive, surmises you frequent HN, subpoenas your voting history from pg, finds this thread and examines which anti-governement/pro-common-sense comments you up voted.

But don't worry, because the web is the future of computing and one day all our information will be stored in giant central databases outside of our control. Isn't the cloud great?

(And by the way, "common sense" is not always the same thing as "good sense".)




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