Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr...
by BoorishBears on Sunday January 22, 2017 @07:15PM
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Actually what I meant was the GP said it was an anonymous post, I don't think automatically correlating random usernames to real people is that cheap except in specific cases where username = real name.
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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr...
by Nomentatus on Monday January 23, 2017 @12:00AM
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Metadata includes the time. And for the internet (as opposed to phones) they trace the whole routing through the net of each message to be sure they have the real origin, and then store that. There's a reason NSA buildings are so big.