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I've been saying this for a while too. There's no such thing as online privacy - privacy is dead. It's better that the default for most things online is publi
by fossuser 14y ago
I've been saying this for a while too.
There's no such thing as online privacy - privacy is dead.
It's better that the default for most things online is public since any privacy setting is just an illusion of security. Of course there are some notable exceptions to this (encrypted backup services that encrypt locally before backup), but for the most part if it's online and at least some other people can see it - everyone can see it.
- adrusi 14y agousing encryption it's completely possible to make any information exchange as secure as it can possibly be without accounting for humans on the other end leaking the information.
- fossuser 14y agoThat's exactly the reason it isn't secure.
- EGreg 14y agoYeah, if you think that, then you should read this :) http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120110469#b http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120110469#b It took me a loooong time to figure out how to do privacy and social networking at the same time, using only web technology. Actually it can't be provably private using web technology because you have to trust the server -- which is why we need this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024164 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024164