Subj : the nothing to hide a
To : SYS64738
From : Boraxman
Date : Tue Feb 15 2022 08:12 pm
Re: the nothing to hide a
By: SYS64738 to Boraxman on Mon Feb 14 2022 09:18 am
> I can certainly see your point. It's sort of like when my aunt (who is not
> very tech savvy) thinks she is sending a private message to me in Facebook,
> she actually posts that message on her wall for everyone to see. She intende
> for it to be a private conversation, but now everyone on her friend's list c
> see it. Also, if her setting on FB are set a certain way, the entire planet
> see it just through a simple Google search. If it were a personal matter, t
> it only gets worse from there.
Indeed. But I too have been caught by that, thinking that what was posted on a
BBS, was for the BBS, only to find it comes up in a Google search.
Defaults matter a lot in any software or service design, and I think good
design is to default to a limited audience, and to be upfront and clear what th
e scope of communication is.
Sometimes, like a forum where you can read everything from the start page, it
is obvious, but in other areas, it is not. If you have to sign up, log in to
access, then it is implied that access is for those signed up.
In the early days, the WWW was a public place, you ONLY went online to see
public things, and aside from e-mail, any interaction was meant to be public
(ie, signing a guestbook). But with online services acting as communications
medium between people, we have to break away from that, and have sensible
services where that communication is kept to its 'natural' audience.
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