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I know a bunch of people who are deleting their LiveJournal accounts because they're worried about the servers now being in Russia. One of them noted that they didn't want their private data being available for Putin's use.
That strikes me as a good reason not to put anything private on LJ from now on, but what's there is there. I commented:
Don't count on SUP to actually overwrite or otherwise get rid of the data if you delete a journal. Keeping the files while claiming they were gone wouldn't even be technically difficult: the software is already supposed to keep the contents of deleted journals for 30 days in case you change your mind. My inexpert hunch is that deleting an individual entry, or editing it to replace your private content with quotes from Shakespeare or Alice in Wonderland or the first umpteen digits of pi is more likely to actually get rid of the data.
That strikes me as a good reason not to put anything private on LJ from now on, but what's there is there. I commented:
Don't count on SUP to actually overwrite or otherwise get rid of the data if you delete a journal. Keeping the files while claiming they were gone wouldn't even be technically difficult: the software is already supposed to keep the contents of deleted journals for 30 days in case you change your mind. My inexpert hunch is that deleting an individual entry, or editing it to replace your private content with quotes from Shakespeare or Alice in Wonderland or the first umpteen digits of pi is more likely to actually get rid of the data.