Are you sharing any PII or other personally sensitive information? This could include unique technical identifiers such as MAC addresses and public IP addresses, or more personal information. In your scenario, there are (at least) 3 things to be mindful of or possibly concerned with: If you're a politician or a spy, get rid of the computer right now. If you can get the chat message deleted, that might be a good idea. So wrapping up: I wouldn't advise posting the report for the general public, but you probably don't need to worry too much. On the other hand, if the link will expire, if it's a private chat room, if the chat messages get deleted automatically (or aren't easy to search), or if the computer is one you're going to replace soon anyway, then that would diminish the likelihood. For example, if you published this report on Twitter, that's higher visibility and thus higher likelihood of attack. I could use that to figure out what websites you look at, and prepare a very convincing link.īut with risks, you have to look at likelihoods. Here is where I need to point out those TCP connections. If I were just evil, I could contact you in the chat and "helpfully" post a link to a malicious website and hope you click on it. A lot of people accidentally share more than they realize, especially if you have accounts that are traceable to other platforms like Twitter or Facebook. I could do OSINT on the account you posted from (Reddit or Stack Exchange). These details could be used to refine OSINT, though. The time zone and language (assuming they are correct) point to an area of the world that has quite a lot of people. In this particular case, those names didn't appear very useful, but they could be. And also there are a few crazy people wandering around (don't make eye contact with them, please). But this is the Internet, so it's hard to be completely anonymous. 
Privacy/anonymity is important, because you need a way to attack somebody, and usually a motivation. Now, on the topic of privacy/anonymity, I found these things in the report: I could use that to figure out exactly the sort of attack that would be most likely to succeed.
Those are things that would be immensely helpful if I were attacking you. Here are a few things I see in the report:
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