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I share your concern. Once data like this is deanonymized, it's out there forever -- there's no going back to fix it like you would a software bug. So you nee
by rectang 11y ago
I share your concern.
Once data like this is deanonymized, it's out there forever -- there's no going back to fix it like you would a software bug. So you need perfect understanding and provable security at release time to guaranteed safety into the indefinite future. That's not an easy constraint to satisfy.
- joatmon-snoo 11y agoThe thing that terrifies me specifically is that there's been work done - I believe it was a branch of the US military studying network traffic patterns - showing that you can reconstruct profiles based on behavior patterns and link them back to the original user with high success rates.