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Having a publicly known thing that also has to be kept private from some people seems like it's the root cause of the problems. It's like having a single shared
by IanCal 10y ago
Having a publicly known thing that also has to be kept private from some people seems like it's the root cause of the problems. It's like having a single shared password to keep an important resource safe.
- azernik 10y agoNo, it's like having an important resource, period. You have a piece of information that you want some people to have but not others. This is a simple (though not necessarily easy) problem, which happens to get harder as the set of people who you do want to have the information gets larger. Note that you also don't want this to be publicly known - letting random people find your phone number is also considered a Bad Thing.
- dismantlethesun 10y agoIt's a default thing though. Home landlines are publicly listed unless you pay monthly to unlist.