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> TC could also be used to delete evidence from computers of journalists who would have no power to keep it.

Since Amazon deleted all those copies of 1984 from everyone's Kindles, I don't keep mine connected to the internet. If you have data, you can keep it. Keep it on your own devices.

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I think journalists or other hobbyists/professionals with work they need to protect should start thinking about keeping an air-gapped computer around. I've seen this phrase used recently to describe a computer which has never been connected to the internet, a network or another device. I'm sure it's non-trivial to source a computer that arrives in a trustworthy state, however.

> Since Amazon deleted all those copies of 1984 from everyone's Kindles

What? When? Seriously?

They mistakenly sold books the publishers hadn't licensed, then refunded the customers and removed the books from their Kindles.

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