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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @seashell 8h \ on: Don't ignore old email accounts security
Even if your account is deleted, some providers keep backups forever or sell off metadata, your digital footprint might still be floaring around.
Very true. A way to mitigate this is before deletion, change all personal data and info to gibberish or random words before deletion.
Obviously not a fool-proof method, since it relies on the premise that if you delete your account, they don't delete the data tables, but if you edit info they might overwrite previous rows of data associated with you with gibberish.
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