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For a private OSINT investigator, sure. But a state-level actor (ie: the sort of groups that the CIA is supposed to butts heads with) could easily maintain thei
by Sanzig 5y ago
For a private OSINT investigator, sure. But a state-level actor (ie: the sort of groups that the CIA is supposed to butts heads with) could easily maintain their own mirrors.
Hell, if you have a few dozen terabytes of disk space you can download the entire plaintext archive of Reddit comments from Pushshift, regardless of if they've been deleted or not. And that's something a private citizen can do spending a couple grand on hardware. Do we really think that the Chinese Ministry of State Security or Russian GRU aren't keeping archives of Twitter and public Facebook posts for use as blackmail material down the line?
- monocasa 5y agoDepends on the social network I'd guess. The Facebook networks are pretty good at keeping full scrapes from occurring for their own financial reasons. Reddit and Twitter are probably game over though. GenZ is probably more likely to be in the commercially balkanized networks like Insta and SnapChat that are next to impossible to fully scrape at scale.