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If a competitor came in and took your customer list, would it be good for your customers?
It sounds like you're saying that the ends justify the means.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/uv/ends_dont_justify_means_among_hum...
I can't even imagine about what privacy is going to look like in 20 years, or how society will adapt to deal with it. What seems missing from his thought experiment is how to address privacy for things that concern more than just a single participant. I don't particularly worry about my individual privacy, or care about securing my things. If someone managed to get a hold of my email, I wouldn't be very put out. I do…
With society heading more towards social media, connections, and networking. Holding secrets seem to be pretty difficult.
If someone were to ask me to tell them a secret, I wouldn't even know what to say. It seems like all aspects of my life is already known by one person or another, or maybe it's so secret that I don't even remember it myself.
I wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Similar things happen when you are writing code for yourself and yourself only. When I write code for my own pleasure. I don't care so much about documentation, clarity, robustness, polish, etc. Yes, I am a bad, bad person. Anyway, compare writing code for yourself with code you share with friends (generally supportive, but add some polish and fix that hack so they don't think you're a complete idiot), colleagues (semi-critical yet supportive, maybe try to score some bonus points using a FactorySingletonVisitorBean) or hackerne.ws (super-critical, probably rewrite it in the language-du-jour first, prepare to be burned at the stake anyway).
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If you write down your secrets on a diary, or tell some of your friends about it, or God forbid! write it up on Facebook, then you're asking for trouble (or maybe you want those "secrets" to not stay secret forever). My secrets are in my head, I don't talk about them to anyone, I don't write them down. They will die with me. Of course that doesn't work for a business. But a business is NOT a person, so it's disingenu…
We write things down for a number of reasons. Are you really arguing that a person "is asking for it" just for writing it down?
My mother was a lawyer and always taught us never to talk over the phone about things that were potentially incriminating, much less writing it down -- and this was in the seventies-eighties, long before anything resembling the Internet or the mass-surveillance capabilities of today's NSA.
What I'm saying is that a real secret is something not shared with anyone; if you need to share a "secret" with another person:
- you need to take extreme precautions, such as not talking about it on the phone, not writing about it, not alluding to it when in presence of other people
- you can only talk about it in person, not over any kind of wire, regardless of what you think are good encryption methods
- and even if you do all of the above it's very likely the secret won't stay secret forever
I'd say this is all common sense.
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Yes open transparent society, this the future I'm looking forward to. I would no need to hide my credit card number, bank account, sexual quirk, etc, If anybody trying to abuse that, they will be easily tracked.
Keep private things private. The world doesn't need to know your sexual quirks, or your bank balance, and you shouldn't feel the need to broadcast it. People I interact with know I have a wife, they don't need to know her favorite lube or position. That is crude and unnecessary, and a society that expects that knowledge and welcomes it with open arms has a major root issue.
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If you write down your secrets on a diary, or tell some of your friends about it, or God forbid! write it up on Facebook, then you're asking for trouble (or maybe you want those "secrets" to not stay secret forever). My secrets are in my head, I don't talk about them to anyone, I don't write them down. They will die with me. Of course that doesn't work for a business. But a business is NOT a person, so it's disingenu…
We write things down for a number of reasons. Are you really arguing that a person "is asking for it" just for writing it down?
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The punishment for killing is the deterrent.
For people that have rational minds. What about people who are irrational or have some sort of mental illness? I guess that's just a "too bad" for the person who is now dead?
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This is not the problem with open society in itself. The same problem happen in private society. Anybody motivated enough can hack through your secret given enough effort.
"Given enough effort" is the key there. Just because someone can break into your house given enough effort doesn't mean you leave your doors off the hinges.
In the context of coding projects, the author's conclusion seems realistic. Given current events though, I can't help but wonder if there's a subtext about privacy and snooping. If so, then I would venture this observation: Your friend's super-secret diary is meaningless to you only because you have no desire to abuse the access you've been given. Suppose instead your friend's devious enemy obtained the diary. Then,…
The reasons for privacy are always so contrived. "Dystopian futures", "enemies trying to ruin lives" etc. etc. It never resonates with me. I think what the author is trying to say is that if you live an open life with few secrets, then your life will be less stressful. He's encouraging us to really reevaluate what we keep secret b/c when you sit down to think about it, it's most likely all in your head.
You consider yourself part of the 'in' group. I follow all the rules, why would anyone bother me? And that works fine until one day it doesn't. The day that happens you'll get no help from the other people that think the way you do.