Although I value privacy and obscurity, this makes me kind of sad for future historians.
They do when it turns out that a serial killer was in that line. Tracking exactly what that killer did leading up to the killing spree would be very interesting to them.
But it's very hard to track 1 person retroactively. Unless, of course, there's a nation-wide surveillance system in place.
I'm not advocating for it. I'm just saying that the parent is correct in that historians would love this information.
We're living in the middle of a dark age anyway. All our precious digital media are extremely fragile both in their capacity to be preserved, and in future generations' ability to decode them even if they are preserved. If you want historians to see something, write it on a physical object, in multiple languages.
It's hard to imagine a scenario where future historians can't even translate 2019 English. That's either an apocalypse layered over an apocalypse, or a length of time beyond any human comprehension - tens of thousands of years - of dark ages. You need to be carving in stone or baked clay in the desert to hit time spans that long.
The latter seems pretty unlikely.
(I'm talking about decoding, the fragility of storage is for sure an issue)
The stuffit archives wouldn't be a problem, the Jaz drive probably would.
If you give me a few million up front, I'll work on it.
Yeah me too, but I like free services that everyone uses.
I suppose its nice I have nothing to hide. I genuinely feel bad for people who do.