Indeed. There was no expectation of privacy on the internet at the time and THAT is exactly why it was standard to not communicate personal information you didn

Indeed. There was no expectation of privacy on the internet at the time and THAT is exactly why it was standard to not communicate personal information you didn’t want to share. Pseudonymity carried onto the internet until the Facebook days. I am still firmly in the Information wants to be free camp, and I agree with you that LLMs scanning it is a logical continuation of it all.