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> if you search for «illegal Irish potato recipes», it’ll inject similar searches such as «fun Irish drinking games» and «funny potato pictures». Google will now see your relevant but also irrelevant queries making it hard to distinguish what you actually searched for. This will give us a layer of «plausible deniability» in case anyone accuses you of a crime you never committed based on your search history stored at Google.

This is pretty implausibly deniable.

"Yes, officer, I know my computer searched for that, but that's only because I installed some software to deliberately search for things so that if I ever got suspected of a crime based on my search history I'd be able to tell you that it might not have been me"

parent jstanley 7 years ago

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