Ab On The Internet

[Khandro]

I just googled a question about crispbread/Ryvita & was surprised to see an entry from AB, 2012;

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Food-and-Drink/Question1114568-2.html

Which alarms me to think that all are posts are forever  available to the wide world, were you aware of this?

[jno]

I agree, barry, but I was surprised by Buenchico's link - in years gone by, when anyone posted a link to similar antique pages, the links on those pages would take you to updated versions of News (or whatever). It's the first time I've followed a link that goes to another old page.

[barry1010]

That's because his link takes you not to AB but to the Web Archive.  If AB were to disappear tomorrow the pages stored by web archive would still be active.

[jno]

sure, but it used not to take you anywhere. I assume this is part of a continuing effort to make the archive the size of Jupiter at least.

[barry1010]

I don't think Web Archive is anything to do with AB.  It archives many Websites.

[Peter Pedant]

yes

altho -  various things do get lost on the internet - info growing at a terabyte a day.  The accounts of the trial of a master at school ( nardy nardy master, now doing 6 y) seem to have gone by the board

Egyptians raiding and emptying the East German consulate of arms in er 1959 - I found and can find no mention of now. It is the international law precedent that allows a country to raid another country's embassy on the  grounds of hot pursuit. Shades of Yvonne Fletcher and the Libyan embassy

ynni's miffy goes miaow

[Khandro]

If a person were to confess to a really terrible crime on AB thinking they were behind a wall of anonymity & it came to the attention of the police and assuming the police were effective, - which is questionable today.  Could they not hack in and find the email address of that person and go to their provider to establish their identity ? 

[barry1010]

Unless they used a throwaway email address with fake credentials.

They could be tracked down in other ways - think of all those vile people using the dark web for nefarious purposes thinking they are untracable - until they are arrested.

But for everyone else we are anonymous here unless we choose not to be - or give away too much personal information.

[fourteen85]

A while ago my Sister was having a conversation with her next door neighbour about the term ' Fred Fern' which my father used when we were kids for the skin on rice pudding (60 years ago), she said lets google it. what came up was a question on answerbank asking about the very same phrase. It was me asking on here a few years earlier