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You can want to keep something secret without doing something shady. How you want your doctor to tell you that you've got gonorrhea: in a private conversation
by meepmorp 6y ago
You can want to keep something secret without doing something shady.
How you want your doctor to tell you that you've got gonorrhea: in a private conversation in their office, or through shouting it at you in the waiting room?
- ricardobayes 6y agoSome great ideas thanks. But I feel most of the examples given are not adequate. By 'this much privacy' I meant going out of way to use 'untraceable' software. I don't think a doctor's office is relative to this, more like a numbered swiss bank account.
- meepmorp 6y agoOk, think of someone in a situation where the cost of being discovered is too great, even if unlikely. Whistleblowers, human rights activists, people in abusive or dangerous living situations they can’t immediately escape, sexual assault victims seeking support in private, a well known person who has personal issue they want to keep to themselves. If you stand to lose a lot by being identified, then you’re a use case.
- feanaro 6y agoWhy is using untraceable software something that should be considered as "going out of your way", in your opinion? I think it's just because it's relatively uncommon today. But if all software was close to the untraceable end of the spectrum by default, the world would be better place for it.