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(This will be an unpopular opinion) The community response to this is ridiculous. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other company that has responded
by oconnore 15y ago
(This will be an unpopular opinion)
The community response to this is ridiculous. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other company that has responded to community criticism within a day or two with a policy reversal, a software change, and a deletion of offending data.
Guys and gals, stop picking on Path. They are AWESOME. They deleted your data and changed their app so it would never happen again. Try that with Facebook.
As a nerd, on some level I too lament that they didn't fix this with a cryptographic hash and a bloom filter, but come on, as businesses go, this is top notch.
- makmanalp 15y agoSo if I do something bad and then when someone finds out I reverse it, am I instantly forgiven and innocent? And anyone with half a brain can figure out that people would get pissed about this, which means they took the risk to do this secretly. They did not do this accidentally.
- oconnore 15y agoOccam's razor disagrees with you. It is perfectly plausible that some engineer with little interest in cryptography/privacy implemented the most obvious solution. Also, yes, I typically forgive people when they reverse their actions and ask for forgiveness. It makes for good relationships.
- 5teev 15y agoForgive people, yes. Companies? Eh, plenty of other fish in the sea.