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I did read the thread and I understand it. The fact that they were able to narrow it down to one building with only 30 people means that it is definitely not ma
by jrnichols 3y ago
I did read the thread and I understand it. The fact that they were able to narrow it down to one building with only 30 people means that it is definitely not many would consider to be anonymous.
From a news article in the thread:
“We started tracking it,” Johnson said. “So, we started from the main treatment plant of over 100,000 people, and sort of like checked all the lines. And all of them, only one of the lines had the lineage. And so we would just keep going — checking… all of the pieces of the web, figuring out– following it up, up the line until we got to a single manhole. That manhole actually only got waste from one place, which was a company (that) had about 30 employees.”
my point is valid. They are able to do quite a bit of tracking through wastewater. That removes most of the anonymity.
The twitter user you linked to seems to agree.
https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665525245451665408 https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665525245451665408