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Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by foobarian on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:12PM (#36049286)
Funny thing is (IIRC) he sent it over IRC, which as far as these things go is relatively ephemeral :-)
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Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by yamtaddle on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:46PM (#36049896)
Ha, yeah, reinforces the idea that if you don't have crazy-good opsec you better not post anything online—including in places as relatively-safe as IRC or direct messages—that you don't want in the newspaper, with your name next to it.
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Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by foobarian on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:04PM (#36050126)
I still cringe at the immature garbage we did in college over telnet and unsecured NIS/Ethernet Unix boxes not questioning whether anyone was recording packet traces for posterity. Luckily disk space was super expensive back then. :-)
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