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Seriously. Twitter gets crucified for a lack of accountability, now Facebook gets criticized for having too much. You can't embrace online anonymity only when i
by ng12 9y ago
Seriously. Twitter gets crucified for a lack of accountability, now Facebook gets criticized for having too much. You can't embrace online anonymity only when it benefits you.
- pjc50 9y agoAccountability and de-anonymisation (which with enough information turns into "doxxing") are not the same thing. For twitter, people don't need to know who the persistent abusers are on their government ID, only that there are rules and they will be effectively banned if the rules are broken. De-anonymisation enables random mobs to apply "accountability" through death threats offline. For some people this is a serious risk. (Or in CS101: authentication and authorisation are not the same thing)
- varjag 9y agoIs authorization generally possible without authentication?
- yellowapple 9y agoI suppose it could be in a capability-based security scheme. In such a scheme, authorization is based upon tokens that are passed around and could be owned by any user or process, making authorization separate from identification.
- dredmorbius 9y agoYes.
- dwighttk 9y ago"You can't embrace" X " only when it benefits you." Welcome to the human race! You are probably not going to enjoy the orientation period.
- DanBC 9y agoI don't see why it's confusing. Bob can have whatever name they want. They don't get to threaten to rape and murder another user.