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What privacy violating details does WARC retain?
by eviks 3y ago
What privacy violating details does WARC retain?
- Brian_K_White 3y agoThey said that a pcap could contain unwanted private info. I don't know what pcap is though, tcpdump?
- eviks 3y agothey said pcap could contain "a lot more", so I was wondering what "lesser" private info WARC has
- DrewADesign 3y agoDepends on what you’re archiving. Are you archiving a site with poorly protected authentication mechanisms? Something with personal data? In any case, it won’t have a bunch of internal network traffic that could be sensitive regardless of what you’re archiving.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoAnything that could ever appear in an http transaction. Which is to say, anything. This is like asking what possible sensitive information a piece of paper might have. If you just mean unseen info that wasn't obviously displayed right on the screen where the original user will know not to be careless with the archive of that page, the answer is still anything.
- TheTechRobo 3y agoEverything transmitted over HTTP. That includes cookies, passwords, etc. You need to be careful when writing WARCs.