Basically, a good way to never trust “it’s okay, the data is anonymized” again is simply knowing wha
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Attached: 1 image Basically, a good way to never trust "it's okay, the data is anonymized" again is simply knowing what the "Hemisphere Program" is. https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere In short, the US government got access to number from, number to, datetime, length and sometimes location information for every call passing through AT&T's network from 1987 to today. Then they ran an algorithm to de-anonymize every burner phone based on behavior. They did this because maybe some of those burners were used by drug dealers.
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Molly is just a bit of a hardened version. It’s still signal besides that

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