You ever think about how we have the both-sides view of a lot of important personal correspondences, even state-of-the-art-ly–encrypted correspondences, from like the early modern era and such? Or like we have Pepys’s diary, which (if I recall) he assumed that only he could read? It comes to mind a lot when I write a personal e-mail or make a new notes.md or whatever.

@vruba our only hope is obscurity through sheer plenitude of data

or its fragility

@tim Or the complete destruction of academia so that future grad student working on a paper about early internet social norms never exists