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Regardless of your politics or beliefs of what happened, I think a simple bit of advice is truth:

If you are going to run an e-mail server in difficult circumstances then hire a System Administrator who does not need to post obviously problematic questions to Reddit.

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Under a freaking user name that can be easily traced back to them. I mean, seriously?

And this is why the NSA collecting all data on everyone should have people worried. Sure, it's just pictures of your cat and 'my life is boring, they can spy on me all they want because they won't find anything interesting"

And then 2 years later your post on an internet forums about your missing dog helps tie you the destruction of evidence.

I mean, yeah, but first and foremost you should probably strive to avoid committing felonies.

I agree 100% with that too!

The point is that even if you are posting innocuous things, it builds up a profile that can identify you in ways you do not expect. This example was for something serious.

Who knows what the next example will be like.

On reddit of all places, where it takes all of ten seconds to create a throwaway handle.

You get what you pay for.

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