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My understanding is that they were destroyed, but I’m guessing there’s hundreds of copies made by sysadmins over the years as thousands of nudes of every studen
by prepend 4y ago
My understanding is that they were destroyed, but I’m guessing there’s hundreds of copies made by sysadmins over the years as thousands of nudes of every student is unlikely data to stay squirreled away. I’m guess they didn’t have any data audit controls back then so they would not have a way to monitor who made copies and where they are.
- SoftTalker 4y agoSysadmins? These were photographs. Film and paper.
- prepend 4y agoYou don’t think anyone digitized them in the decades of their existence? Salacious information wants to be spread. If there were folders full of nude students, I think that would be of interests to people who like nude pictures and they would circumvent whatever controls were in place. Just by existing.
- SoftTalker 4y agoObviously a few have, as they are available online. I would guess the vast majority have not. One of the linked stories in that Reddit post describes how many of them were burned or shredded in the 1990s. Nobody was mass-digitizing old paper records back then, storage was too scarce and too expensive. There was no S3.