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That might be how we deal with children who can't handle responsibility, but the absence of technical controls for every nuance of life is why ethics and code o
by jstarfish 9y ago
That might be how we deal with children who can't handle responsibility, but the absence of technical controls for every nuance of life is why ethics and code of law exists for adults.
Access controls are not a substitute for maturity.
- lobo_tuerto 9y agoAgreed, too bad humanity's level of maturity as a whole is very far away from ideal. If everyone did what they should we would probably be living in an utopia. But that's not the case. I don't mean that everything should be super-locked down to the point where it's inaccessible, just tweak it enough to not be misused. The idea of an audit trail is good, since you can go back in history and make any misbehaving parties accountable. Or design a system where the client authorize a rep to look into her records ---just like banks do when you ask for your balance.
- rdiddly 9y agoWell, does Lyft's hiring process optimize for maturity? Do they often hire people in their 40s, for example?
- tantalor 9y ago> children who can't handle responsibility Isn't the real concern bad actors? e.g., LOVEINT
- vidarh 9y ago> Access controls are not a substitute for maturity. But maturity is not a substitute for access controls either. In any organization of some size, no matter how much you hire for "maturity", eventually people will slip past who have all kinds of reasons they'll be able to justify to themselves for deciding it's too tempting to look at things they shouldn't.