I tried to hide my identity as much as possible when I made the account. This included using a pseudo-random email address, fake name, fake address, and (unfortunately) fake birthday, as all of those things could be used as foreign keys to try to match my identity

It asks for your birthday to delete/access your data, but I used a fake one when I signed up…

And any really unscrupulous actors will just setup their own encryption…

I learned the basics of CS from this course online 7 years ago and it lead to a great career as a software dev. Hat’s off to the whole CS50 team for creating such an incredible resource and making it available for free!

Picking words at random from a dictionary would not be very compute intensive, the content doesn’t need to be sensical