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Comment by kirmerzlikin | Hacker News Reader

Am I the only one who finds the idea of sending a full history of your private messages to some publisher for printing a little bit unsettling?

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I think if I sent my full history of private messages to a publisher, the most unsettled one would be the publisher!

the publisher is the business of spitting ink on paper. you should be more unsettled by being MITM'd by data mining companies whose job it is to change behavior via ads or other consensus-building tools.

I might not do this if I were a high public official or celebrity on the off-chance that someone in the printing and packaging chain might happen to notice. But, for an average person, it seems pretty harmless. (Personally, the last thing I need is more paper but I get the attraction.)

No, I do too. I've been planning on doing what the author did for quite some time now, and this is one of the unsolved stumbling blocks.

Printing and binding at home is probably the only option. All that's left to figure out is how to make the end result durable haptically pleasant...

You can always print it out, then run to Kinko's and use their comb binder that they usually have out. Not as elegant as real binding, but enough to make it work on my shelves.

For the cost of the plane ticket, I could probably hire a retired book binder ;)

I would not be surprised if the files were not stored in a particularly secure manner. The publisher probably never anticipated PII being in the PDFs for print. They probably have an indefinite data retention period.

Maybe try the —rot13 switch.

:-)

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