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How to ‘poison’ your data before you delete Facebook
The Daily Dot ^ | 29-Mar-2018 | Christina Bonnington

Posted on 03/31/2018 9:06:30 AM PDT by ptsal

Over the past few weeks, we’ve learned a lot about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and how Facebook uses your data. The revelations have pushed many users—including some brands and celebrities—to leave the social network altogether. Rather than simply deleting your profile or profile information, however, some are advising a slightly different tactic to protect your online identity: tainting that data.

Developer and former systems administrator Kevin Matthew published a script that goes back through your Facebook posts and edits them with randomly generated characters.

Based on his knowledge as a systems administrator, Matthew explains that “even by conservative assumptions, your data never really disappears permanently” when you deactivate or delete your Facebook account. With that in mind, the next best thing, he argues, is to go back through your history on the social network and “poison” (or otherwise obfuscate) all that data.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: facebook; righttobeforgotten; zuckerburg
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To: wastoute

I’m damn tired of seeing ads pop up on media sites, of items I have looked at on the net. One was wigs. Several on Drudge and they were moving to boot. Very distracting and very disturbing.


41 posted on 03/31/2018 12:34:57 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: ptsal

Funny. Anyone who’s ever been on the Interweb knows that you’ve been tracked. The whiners over Facebook are, well, whiners.

I’ll stay on FB. Met some old friends, hooked up with some old girlfriends, keep in touch with my kids, this whole mess of becoming verklempft over FB data is hilarious.

Stay or go. Those of us who stick around know that our data will be gathered and used. Those who don’t stick around were idiots to begin with.


42 posted on 03/31/2018 12:47:29 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrat laws and regulations kill people.)
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To: Redbob

Because he said to run the script once a month for a few months to delete your info on older backups.

That means you have to carefully plan your removal, and take several months doing so (according to the author’s plan).

This assumes that eventually Facebook no longer restores old backups or looks in them for data mining old content.


43 posted on 03/31/2018 12:51:38 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: I want the USA back

That depends on just how far back they go to mine data. If I was buying data from them, I’d want it to be fairly fresh.

I’ll bet they don’t too far beyond one year back to pull data.

If you’re periodically overwriting old data, eventually the oldest “clean” data will drop off the search sources.


44 posted on 03/31/2018 12:59:31 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Candor7

thanks, only joined twice under fake ID just to be able to pick up some information on an open account related to research, then unsubscribed immediately.


45 posted on 03/31/2018 3:21:04 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Uncle Sham

Did you know FB has a window to update your voters registration in case you moved? Talk about a way to change elections with fake votes.


46 posted on 03/31/2018 4:13:00 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: BuffaloJack

What’s interesting is when you have to call a customer service person for your credit card and they swear they aren’t able to see your password or personal info but after a few minutes they always slip up and tell you the first letter of your password or your dog’s name. Of course they see everything on you.


47 posted on 03/31/2018 4:18:17 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

bgill wrote:

Did you know FB has a window to update your voters registration in case you moved? Talk about a way to change elections with fake votes.

Uh oh....


48 posted on 03/31/2018 4:22:28 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: ptsal

Women in … custody who would otherwise be subjected to the Trump administration’s attempt to force them to bring to [the] pregnancy to term.”

Uh’m, they can pay for it themselves.

The taxpayer shouldn’t pay for an elective surgery or to snuff out another person’s life.


49 posted on 03/31/2018 4:57:40 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: bigbob

POISONING THE FACEBOOK DATA WELL

As a Masters in Computer Software, here is the approach to poisoning the Facebook data well. It can be done.

Facebook could not just revert back to archived data because it is unknown when good and bad data occur.

RANDOM: Random character insertion into your data is least effective, easiest to program, but easiest to detect and reverse.

TRANSFORMATION: Words would be transformed based upon type or class, such as Color: white is green, red is blue etc.
Person: father is grandma, niece is cousin etc.
This requires a big dictionary, but it is impossible to detect.

TRANSPOSE: Words of similar part of speech are transposed within the paragraphs. eg Dog chased the cat. > Cat chased the dog.

REPLACEMENT: Part of Speech is replaced.
eg Dog chased the cat. > Dog married the cat.

Random garble would occur in the final stages.

PROGRAMMERS: Any motivated programmer can get started. Just point Facebook to your website and press the Garble button.

ADVERTISERS: Ad companies would become annoyed as data, over time cannot be trusted. In fact, the entire Facebook site could be destroyed in this fashion. But I do not recommend this.

A Garble button would be nice though. Any takers?


50 posted on 03/31/2018 10:28:13 PM PDT by TheNext
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To: crusher2013; bigbob

ANTONYM REPLACEMENT

The most effective way to poison the Facebook data is with an Antonym dictionary. It would be irreversible and quite effective.

And yes, it could bring down Facebook permanently.

eg The cat ran well. > The cat ran bad. > The cat ran benevolent. > The can ran deserted.

Antonyms are divergent. Replace each word with iterations of antonyms.


51 posted on 03/31/2018 10:57:54 PM PDT by TheNext
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To: ptsal

Bookmark


52 posted on 04/01/2018 2:12:08 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Thank you Free Republic. Thank you President Donald J Trump, Greatest election Ever.)
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