{"id":1472,"date":"2015-12-28T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T12:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2016-08-06T22:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T22:03:59","slug":"private-messages-are-not-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"Private messages are NOT private"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On any board. Vbulletin, phpBB, Invision &#8230;you name it.<\/p>\n<p>Users can only hope and trust that an admin with access to cPanel will not do that.<\/p>\n<p>Assume somebody will read your PM&#8217;s. Don&#8217;t share sensitive info. Don&#8217;t be naive.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the database looks for the PM table (only opened once for the purpose of this article):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1474\" src=\"http:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/private.jpg\" alt=\"private\" width=\"1054\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/private.jpg 1054w, https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/private-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/private-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/private-1024x517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/private-250x126.jpg 250w, https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/private-150x76.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1054px) 100vw, 1054px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I covered the sensitive info but you get the picture.<\/p>\n<p>All boards, all forums.<\/p>\n<p>What is needed it&#8217;s a mod (app) for encrypting the messages in the database. <strong><em>In such a way<\/em><\/strong> to make it very hard for the snoopy admin to decrypt the info.<\/p>\n<p>While there are various mods for encrypted PM&#8217;s they are a pain to install and maintain and the person installing it will still be able to decrypt the messages.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 196px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On any board. Vbulletin, phpBB, Invision &#8230;you name it. Users can only hope and trust that an admin with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[125,124],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-personal-information","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}