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Secrecy is necessary for privacy, and you can find plenty of essays defending privacy rights. Also, if I asked you for the password to your HN account you prob
by Retr0id 2y ago
Secrecy is necessary for privacy, and you can find plenty of essays defending privacy rights.
Also, if I asked you for the password to your HN account you probably wouldn't tell me, because it's a secret - and that doesn't make you evil.
- llmfan 2y agoEveryone knows you have a secret password. Not so many people know that YC has a secret [insert whatever it is that they have that is secret but that we don't know about here].
- Retr0id 2y agoI'm not sure precisely what you're getting at, but I'm not trying to argue that all secrets are good, merely that some secrets are not bad. I also have plenty of personal secrets that you don't know exist, but I don't see why that would change anything.
- breck 2y ago> if I asked you for the password to your HN account you probably wouldn't tell me, because it's a secret - and that doesn't make you evil. I would tell you, but I would ask you why you wanted it first. There's no inherent need for us to have passwords. If people were always good then I would have no need for a password on this account. The login could just be "username" and one could assume that no one would pose as someone else. > Secrecy is necessary for privacy, and you can find plenty of essays defending privacy rights. I think "privacy rights" are completely redundant if one has property rights. If I have property rights on my home, there's no need for additional "privacy rights".
- Retr0id 2y ago> I think "privacy rights" are completely redundant if one has property rights. That's a rather fringe belief, incompatible with widely held conventions such as the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (among many others). I hold the equally fringe belief that property is theft.