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I agree. > I didn’t want to actually contribute to the problem of lack of privacy. This reads more like "I had a funny feeling this could be wrong, but I did

• andrew_ 8y ago
  nice salacious hot take. knowing the author and having followed the development as it happened, I can attest to his sincerity. your assertion is just plain wrong.
  • sixstringtheory 8y ago
    So, an ad hominem followed by anecdata about someone with which you're personally invested? I think the fact they wrote that at all means it crossed their mind. Did they reach out to Venmo before publishing the article? I didn't see that mentioned anywhere. > I wanted to do something creative with this to demonstrate the lack of privacy in Venmo’s default settings. What was the goal of this? Maybe someone from Venmo would stumble across this, and start some meaningful dialogue around how... > to get a few laughs from my friends and colleagues Ah, right. And of course, posting this publicly on Twitter was the only way to do that? To me, this just shows contempt for users who may not even know that Venmo defaults to public, or even understand what that means. They became fodder for a cannon the author wanted to point at Venmo. Did the author contact all those users to inform them of the implications, both of their public transactions and the little piece of performance art they created?