Big picture being missed, there's a societal argument for decades over once you log something you're responsible for it and who owns the logs of what you do and

Big picture being missed, there's a societal argument for decades over once you log something you're responsible for it and who owns the logs of what you do and the profit generated by Big Brother, etc. So right to be forgotten, all kinds of tracking laws depending on a mix of who owns the device vs where its geographically located today, and now if you log stuff like user agent strings, someone can send you a very toxic string that causes enormous problems. The very short term solution is to fix big brother so he can go back to safely watching our every move, the longer term question is how many security problems are you willing to have in order to extensively and permanently track and log people? There is also an interesting "tree falls in the forest" effect where if you know there will be no professional sysadmin support to debug or fix or work on your minecraft server, why are you making logs, if logging can be exploited just like anything else can be exploited? I worked with a guy in the early internet days whom wanted an old fashioned page every time an exploit came in from China; I asked what is actionable about that, other than they can DDOS his pager and he can't call in an airstrike on them? He disabled his pager notifications, they were of negative net value. We are nearing that point for extensive logging. Its very hard to use a log exploit on software that doesn't log. So why are so many things logged, that shouldn't be logged because its inconceivable that a pro would ever access the logs or its inherently bad to log that kind of PII for ethical reasons? User data is historically seen as always the purest of gold nuggets to be hoarded and traded for valuables; reality is sometimes user data is plague blankets and you don't want them. May be nearing a point where "log everything" has a negative value. Software only increases in complexity over time; complexity means more security problems; at some point "log everything" has too many downsides and not enough upsides. The world's only going to have more "little bobby tables", not fewer. Certainly the long term solution to millions of minecraft servers logging dangerous packets is to not log at all. There's not a downside.