RE: https://tribe.net/@AbsoluteMemery/116838728227285524 The bizarre thing is that the software that harvests some the most intimate stuff about you on an an absurdly consistent basis - taking full copies of programs you run that “seem to be new,” perhaps; recording the URLs you visit; tracking the DNS requests you make; copying every command line parameter you type in (which often includes passwords and other PII); reading your emails before you do just in case; scraping process memory and following software function calls to “learn” your usual computer behaviors; perhaps even decrypting your HTTPS web sessions at the behest of some sysadmin to “save you from yourself”… …is EDR software (or just anti-virus if you want to talk colloquially, in the same way we still talk about “dialling” numbers and “filming” videos). Lots of EDR tools then pride themselves on retaining all that data in a “data lake,” perhaps for weeks, months, or even longer, because you never know when it might help to save the world. Thing about “lakes” as a metaphor is that most of them have rivers flowing out the other end that drain them back into the global water system, and those that don’t give up their content through evaporation anyway.