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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Hey Dennis,
For me, I make the analogy with companies outside of the internet. They can contact me to try to sell me stuff as long as it's through appropriate channels or use the data I give them (and even that would have to be within certain agreed upon limits). But if a company started following me around, taking snapshots of everything I do, going through my mail, I would object.
That's why I object when it happens on the internet.
Whether I'm important or not has nothing to do with it. And it's not a question of paranoia. It's a question of privacy.
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Originally Posted by arjaybe
Well said. We don't need to justify our privacy.
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Agreed -- no need to make it any easier for people. That is one of the reasons why I have a set of browser extensions for avoiding ads and social media tracking.
If the government makes a concerted effort to track me, I am probably toast anyway. But short of that, there is no reason to just
give stuff to the nosy media companies.
Nor is there any reason to let just anyone
plug in the hard drive and see all my info (if I was getting rid of an HDD). So I too would take certain basic precautions to avoid it.
My biggest defense against anyone wanting to do forensic analysis of remapped bad sectors is the sheer effort it takes. But on the other hand, file undelete programs are easy for any casual thief to use.
So... Just In Case... take certain basic precautions. It certainly doesn't hurt.
I don't usually drive myself crazy over it, I will grant you that.
