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Jan. 2nd, 2017 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There are tons of things about my childhood I would love to repeat- summer's off, no worries about finances, Verdolini's Pizza- but this whole Russian Scare bullsh*t is not one of them.
Anyone care to weigh in on the LJ stay/go thought trolley? All opinions respected.
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Date: 2017-01-03 01:52 pm (UTC)http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1517635.html
I'm still leaving. I might keep the account for commenting, but I'm even rethinking that.
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Date: 2017-01-03 10:20 pm (UTC)Still, the privacy violations I'm hearing rumblings about are alarming. What are you leaning towards?
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Date: 2017-01-04 03:10 pm (UTC)AFAIK, LJ has never really used https for anything other than login and payments, so unless people forced an https connection, then everything else -- posts, comments etc -- has always been fetched over an http connection. I'm not sure whether logins are generally still being handled securely or not (I don't understand how the pop-up login box functions) but https://www.livejournal.com/login.bml is still working fine.
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Date: 2017-01-04 07:46 pm (UTC)I think that one issue is, with servers in Russia, that the rules about privacy that protect us on US/Canadian servers no longer apply. I don't think it matters much to 99.9% of LJ users, but if you are a) political or b) dabble in fandoms that are less mainstream/have had issues around "is this pedo? is this illegal?" before, that something could happen. (I don't know WHAT. just... delete your journal? turn shit over to the fbi? I know just enough to be freaked out. I need to read more...)
Anyway, I'm going to keep posting at DW with xposts here, but I may turn off comments here, which will suck. But not as much as losing comments if LJ just shuts down.
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Date: 2017-01-13 03:29 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I really don't want to give Russian security agencies any information, even though I don't think I'm doing anything that they would be particularly interested in.
(There are multiple ways to download / make backups of your LJ, btw! Importing to DW is just one of them.)
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