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For a messaging application whose intended target audience includes dissidents, location sharing even as an option sounds dangerous. Especially given this from
by bostik 5y ago
For a messaging application whose intended target audience includes dissidents, location sharing even as an option sounds dangerous.
Especially given this from your comment: Focus on providing security fixes and minor improvements that improve user experience - when UX includes such irrelevancies such as "avoid getting users vanished and/or killed", the guiding principle should be: no footguns.
- fragmede 5y agoA secret tracking device that reveals the location of the rebels secret underground base certainly sounds dangerous, but allowing dissidents to share location of the protest for everyone to gather at seems almost necessary for a modern messaging app! How else do you get to that critical mass of people in the main city square? In the end, it's just a tool that isn't inherently good or evil.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoThere's a difference between sharing a location (good) and sharing your location (perhaps not so good).