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Re:Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers... by ben509 on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:59AM (#24157301)
Not wanting data shared seems to contradict the mission of a site that shares data.
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Re:Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers... by jermier on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:35AM (#24159264)
So what if someone sleuths around in the e-waste dept. of Instagram and steals a few hard-drives with literally Terabytes of potentially very sensitive data? That's why I would hope Instagram are encrypting data at rest with something like LUKS.
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