Bitcointalk.org Privacy Question

[policja71]

nothing in plaintext is private on the internetz

[RB26DETT]

Web crawlers are not new and one is built into a very common browser.

[rontus]

Web crawlers are not new and one is built into a very common browser.

Do you mean Chrome? And built by Google?

[DeathAndTaxes]

nothing in plaintext is private on the internetz

This is another good point.  Even if the admins internally deleted posts/messages and ensured no lingering data in backups and periodically destroyed the archive media to prevent recovery it doesn't really matter if the website ends up in the public cache of search engines.

If you want something to be private use technology which keeps it private (like GPG).

[imsaguy]

nothing in plaintext is private on the internetz

This is another good point.  Even if the admins internally deleted posts/messages and ensured no lingering data in backups and periodically destroyed the archive media to prevent recovery it doesn't really matter if the website ends up in the public cache of search engines.

If you want something to be private use technology which keeps it private (like GPG).

The pms aren't google indexable unless you're giving the google spider your credentials.

[gbl08ma]

Just act under the assumption everything you send to the Internet is not private (sometimes, even passwords!) and cannot be fully deleted (just like you can't go back in time and mute what you said IRL), and you'll be fine (or you'll become a maniac, not sure...).