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> right now the evidence points towards Yahoo doing that better than most I see your point. Still, Yahoo may be just the first to win the right to disclose. Si
by rfctr 13y ago
> right now the evidence points towards Yahoo doing that better than most
I see your point. Still, Yahoo may be just the first to win the right to disclose. Similar decisions may follow towards Google and MS, for example, and -- oh horror -- HN.
- pvnick 13y agoI hope you're right, I may have to reconsider. But honestly I love a good comeback story and have been rooting for Yahoo since Mayer took over.
- unimpressive 13y agoHN is all public messages anyway. There's no private message feature. The only data they have to give is what you've upvoted and your email. (Though that former set of data might be interesting.)
- mjolk 13y agoE-mail comes with some expectation of privacy due to addressing and targeted communication. Hackernews is public content. Apples and oranges.
- rfctr 13y agoYes, on HN is it public (for example) that a user with a nickname "abcdefg" made some statement about cryptography in general and some government projects in particular. What is not public is who is "abcdefg" in the real life? What is their IP, for instance, at time moment T? Under some conditions NSA may be interested and request this information from HN.
- mjolk 13y agoSure, but it's a public forum. Only a naive person has any expectation of long-term anonymity.