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Qantourisc on June 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter

Another piece of advise would be to never collect data you don't want to give out later.

lostlogin on June 29, 2013 [–]

Marco has talked about this (on a podcast I think, 5by5 build and analyze) although his reasoning was to do with feeling dirty collecting personal data and (I think) removing the possibility of it coming out via a bug or hack or such like. Different reasons but the end effect is the same.

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