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Outside of the cybersecurity analogy, as an American, that's . . . very disturbing. Much like someone open carrying a gun is seen as potentially a few seconds
by psunavy03 3y ago
Outside of the cybersecurity analogy, as an American, that's . . . very disturbing.
Much like someone open carrying a gun is seen as potentially a few seconds away from committing a Very Bad Crime, so is someone walking around your house uninvited.
- kulahan 3y agoEngland has some weird (to me) property privacy laws. IIRC, you cannot be charged for simply walking through someone's property as a shortcut. There's nothing they can do about it, you just can't linger on the property. I mean, it seems fine, I just haven't seen anything like it before.
- psunavy03 3y agoWell cutting across someone's yard != walking through their house. My friends and I growing up would sometimes cut through neighbors' backyards to go somewhere, and while we didn't have formal permission, no one cared because we knew each other.
- toyg 3y agoIt's the system throwing a bone to the general populace in order to maintain an extremely unequal order. Aristocratic landowners mostly do what they want, and there has been no land reform for centuries, so a few concessions were thrown in to allow peasants to make a living somehow.