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> Put yourself in the shoes of an activist in Tunisia or elsewhere. You want to reach friends, acquaintances, and neighbors. Certainly, but you don't necessari
by mayank 16y ago
> Put yourself in the shoes of an activist in Tunisia or elsewhere. You want to reach friends, acquaintances, and neighbors.
Certainly, but you don't necessarily want to have that contact list easily available to anyone armed with a Javascript keylogger or a nightstick.
- jdp23 16y agoExactly. If I post something on Facebook or YouTube, I don't have a contact list. People can sign up to follow me if they want to be public about it, but don't have to. And the government got email passwords with its keystroke logging too.
- cryptoz 16y ago> If I post something on Facebook or YouTube, I don't have a contact list. But on Facebook, you do have a "Friends" list. That's the same thing as a contact list. If the government is keylogging for email passwords, they can keylog Facebook passwords too. Facebook isn't somehow "more secure" than email.
- jdp23 16y agobut information I post on Facebook doesn't just go to my friends. i'm not arguing more or less secure; i'm arguing that the risk/effort/cost/benefit profiles are different, and in most situations for younger activists and audiences the balance favors Facebook.