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Let Your Data Go
- andreyf 17y agoFunny - he's saying this in regard to copyrighted data, but it may also be interpreted to be talking about private user data.
- wmf 17y agoIs he? I thought this was about HTML5.
- dangrossman 17y agoThat's what I was thinking too. The HTML5 spec is trying to specify exactly how HTML is processed and not just the syntax of the markup.
- blasdel 17y agoThis is what Eric Schmidt meant when he said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Of course it's stated in the general case, and as a consequence it's more tactful, but it's the same idea: If you don't want someone to know something, don't tell them.
- rauljara 17y ago"It’s like this: If you send data to someone over the Net, you can’t control what they do with it. At least cost-effectively. Or, if you want a good outcome. This applies to Internet Standards. Any standard that tries to constrain the way in which data, once received, is processed, is broken." So, is the author then opposed to having a secure, standardized way to make credit card payments? Methinks he should be using a word less broad than "data".
- csytan 17y agoWhat I got from your quote is that he thinks it's not possible to control how data is processed after it has been received -- he's not talking about the entire process. Since the data is on somebody's server, there's nothing that can be done to stop them from making poor decisions with it (such as storing CC numbers in plain text).