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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Absolutely. One of the biggest child porn groups is an FBI front for this purpose. I’d google the subject for a link but umm…no

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

So basically the only thing protecting our anonymity is the relative unpopularity of Lemmy?

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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/

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Detectives were able to run relatively simple tests to determine that the file had last been saved by a user named "Dennis," and it had been printed using one of the printers at the nearby Christ Lutheran Church.

Maybe the article is badly worded, but it seems like they got metadata from the file, not the floppy disk itself.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It was either the FAT file or the file itself. The case is famous.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You're not anonymous online either FYI.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Tell me you know nothing about computers without telling me you know nothing about computers.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The internet is at it’s worst when it’s popular

The Federation of lemmy/mastodon instances is the worst part about it

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