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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX staff allegedly had 'Wire... by nytesky on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:42AM (#38128636)
I’m nearing 50, and it was drilled into me that anything you do online/write online could spread far and wide “don’t write something that you wouldn’t want published in the newspaper with your photo”

Everything I’ve ever written at work even in chat is with the thought of a permanent record.

Personal email, I follow same thought of posterity and publication.

Even on anonymous forums I would assume it is possible to do an IP trace to me if someone got interested enough.

Paper trail existed as an idea long before current generation, and I’m surprised the son of lawyers didn’t understand that better than most.

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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX staff allegedly had 'Wire... by eloisius on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:32AM (#38129377)
The problem with that is that everything is something you did online now. People are constantly recording. There’s an astonishing amount of embarassing shit on TikTok just because someone was recording at the right time. Maybe in the past you could just exercise good judgement and not “put online” anything you wouldn’t want to be permanently public, but that’s not really a sound strategy anymore.
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