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ekanes on Feb 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Quora To Oddly-Named Users: Papers Please

For now. It would be a mistake to assume their system is so secure now (and forever into the future) that the data can't be found, or simply leaked inadvertently by Quora.

benologist on Feb 14, 2011 | [–]

Or forced to be handed over with a court order.

It's a very false-anonymity, even by internet standards.

hornokplease on Feb 14, 2011 | [–]

I agree with you, and I have also posted this question on Quora which remains (to date) unanswered:

http://www.quora.com/Have-Quora-admins-ever-unanonymized-a-q...

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