7.23.2015

Of course if you'd taken my class you would have known this 20 years ago…

Ashley Madison breach a painful reminder of online data's permanence - CSMonitor.com

"Even on personal computers, deleting data takes a more effort than dragging a file to the trash, emptying it, and calling it a day. Users must go a step further to eradicate the file. While the you can’t see the file anymore, White, who also teaches at Roger Williams University said, the information can still exist on the hard drive."

…but…pay attention…it’s never too late.

Or. Well. it’s also true, as this article points out, the internet already knows far more about you than you do and it’s never, ever going to forget. Get used to it.

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