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E-mail comes with some expectation of privacy due to addressing and targeted communication. Hackernews is public content. Apples and oranges.
by mjolk 13y ago
E-mail comes with some expectation of privacy due to addressing and targeted communication. Hackernews is public content. Apples and oranges.
- rfctr 13y agoYes, on HN is it public (for example) that a user with a nickname "abcdefg" made some statement about cryptography in general and some government projects in particular. What is not public is who is "abcdefg" in the real life? What is their IP, for instance, at time moment T? Under some conditions NSA may be interested and request this information from HN.
- mjolk 13y agoSure, but it's a public forum. Only a naive person has any expectation of long-term anonymity.