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> Facebook wants to know why you didn’t publish that status update you started writing.

> Unfortunately, the code in your browser that powers Facebook still knows what you typed—even if you decide not to publish it.* It turns out that the things you explicitly choose not to share aren't entirely private.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/1...

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Reminds me of the Petraeus scandal where they communicated via unsent Gmail drafts in a shared account.

EDIT:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal

    Petraeus and Broadwell used fake names to create free webmail accounts
    exchanging messages without encryption tools.
    They would share an email account, with one saving a message in the
    drafts folder and the other deleting it after reading it.

Brilliant

Wasn't that story thoroughly debunked? The data flows didn't support it, and Facebook denied it.

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