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> What if all your search history were leaked? What if all your text messages were leaked? What if all your emails were leaked? But I can directly go into all
by ben509 7y ago
> What if all your search history were leaked? What if all your text messages were leaked? What if all your emails were leaked?
But I can directly go into all those things and delete at least my copies of them. Even with as many problems as Google and Facebook have, it's relatively straightforward to see the entire history of what I have on their sites and delete it.
> As usual, it's not that serious, and there isn't a problem here.
Quoth the article,
> Everything beyond that 10,000-message limit remains on Slack’s servers. So while those messages might seem out of sight and out of mind, they are all still indefinitely available to Slack, law enforcement and third-party hackers.
So I can't go back and check those on any free Slack server I post on.
And if someone decides to pay Slack for one of those servers, blam, any convo that got heated but that I forgot about is now visible to anyone with an axe to grind.
We've seen 10 year old tweets dredged up to go after people of all stripes, so this is certainly a thing that happens.
- ltbarcly3 7y agoNo, you absolutely can't delete your search history, which Google stores in perpetuity, and you can't delete the copies of your SMS messages that sit on some server somewhere, probably forever. All you can do is make it inaccessible in the app or web page you as the user can view it from.
- ben509 7y agoThere are two distinct threat levels: 1. the mostly anonymized logs that require a technically difficult crack and would impact many thousands (millions?) of people simultaneously. 2. activity that can be tied directly back to individuals by anyone with time on their hands. You're absolutely right that there are servers maintaining logs and such, that aren't accessible, but they fall into #1. And category #1 can happen, the famous cheating website being cracked as a great example. But that was itself relatively exceptional since simply being a user was enough to end in divorce. The Slack message history distinctly falls into #2. It's a far more immediate problem.
- konspence 7y agoEverything they have published shows that you can delete search history, among other things. They recently released a feature which is effectively a TTL on searches, for retention purposes.