To push the analogy a little, what is she is nude in the living room, and people are stopping on the sidewalk to look in through your windows. I think that woul

To push the analogy a little, what is she is nude in the living room, and people are stopping on the sidewalk to look in through your windows. I think that would be a rude invasion of privacy. (Alternatively, replace the living room window with an open front-door, or to push it even more with a closed but not locked front-door) The question of this analogy hinges, in my mind, on whether "this site talks https on port 443" is the equivalent of looking in someones front yard, or the equivalent of looking through the window into someones living room. I think one weird difference is that we can passively observe things in the real world. But you can't passively observe an IP-address. You need to send data at it to see how it responds. On that note, perhaps the analogy should be that people are shining a flashlight into your front-garden at night. Because they need to illuminate your private property in order to see anything.