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Privacy Protection: Tin Foil Hat Edition
Most of us through our daily digital lives go about it with an air of innocence as we send emails, chat with friends through instant messenger, and text message eachother on our phones.
When I say to some friends to secure their communications they exclaim:
"We are anonymous due to the sheer volume of traffic, how would someone single me out to even pay attention to what I'm saying"
This assumes that a human being is even looking at all. If I'm on the line and want to find something out about what 100k people are chatting about I'd use a program and give it keywords to look out for. These can be words like "money", "investment", "sex", ...the list goes on...
If one are more enterprising enough one might try data mining techniques. This way one can sift through messages with automation, looking at millions of messages with a program that will flag certain emails or conversation streams and present with a convenient list of who to start looking at. Then, you can be singled out.
If you have nothing to hide, then there's more on the flip....
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