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0 pointsbarbariangrunge2y ago0 comments

I don’t know, you’ve never heard of blackmail? $500 in Bitcoin to some wallet or we leak your search results to your church group?

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How would they connect search results to an individual? Surely, a simple VPN, which is a basic internet hygene these days, prevents that.

That's what AOL thought when they released the anonymized search data of their users (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release). Turns out they were very wrong.

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0 pointsbarbariangrunge2y ago0 comments

I don’t know, you’ve never heard of blackmail? $500 in Bitcoin to some wallet or we leak your search results to your church group?

How would they connect search results to an individual? Surely, a simple VPN, which is a basic internet hygene these days, prevents that.

That's what AOL thought when they released the anonymized search data of their users (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release). Turns out they were very wrong.

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