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Re: Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

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It has been an issue for at least 5 years. I remember one dude from HN deanonymized me around 5 years ago by looking at my notion page.

Looks like we're gonna have to go full CIA mode and shift into maximum OPSEC if we want any semblance of privacy. Gotta compartmentalize everything...

Re: Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

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the answer to that is a functional social safety net for the innocent employees to land in, not allowing companies to violate the law with impunity.

You’re describing a system where taxpayers foot the bill for data breaches.

Not at all. Make the guilty corporation pay for all of it.

Re: Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

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Apparently this is officially documented at https://www.notion.com/help/public-pages-and-web-publishing#... buried in a note: > When you publish a Notion page to the web, the webpage’s metadata may include the names, profile photos, and email addresses associated with any Notion users that have contributed to the page.

This is, as a notion user with public pages, beyond stupid.

Re: Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

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I think we’ll start seeing consulting agencies advertise how many vulnerabilities that can resolve per million token, and engineering teams feeling pressure to merge this generated code. We’ll also see more token heavy services like dependabot, sonar cube, etc that specialize in providing security related PR Reviews and codebase audits. This is one of the spaces where a small team could build something that quickly p…

The same vertical-specialist logic applies in legal tech. Law firms are drowning in contract review — NDA, MSAs, leases — and generic AI gives them vague answers with no accountability. The teams winning there aren't building 'AI for lawyers', they're building AI that cites every answer to a specific clause and pins professional liability to the output. That's a very different product than a chatbot.

What is needed there are custom harnesses that don’t let the LLM decide what to do when. Use their power of pattern matching on data, not on decision transcriptions.

Re: Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

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Apparently this is officially documented at https://www.notion.com/help/public-pages-and-web-publishing#... buried in a note: > When you publish a Notion page to the web, the webpage’s metadata may include the names, profile photos, and email addresses associated with any Notion users that have contributed to the page.

That's just ... absurd.

The flaw itself is absurd but then just accepting it as "by design" makes it even worse.

Re: Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

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Notion’s macOS app is some of the worst software I’ve ever used. If there is a platform design idiom, they likely break it without a second thought.

Well thats because it isn't really a macOS app. its just the web app.

Re: Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

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It has been an issue for at least 5 years. I remember one dude from HN deanonymized me around 5 years ago by looking at my notion page.

Looks like we're gonna have to go full CIA mode and shift into maximum OPSEC if we want any semblance of privacy. Gotta compartmentalize everything...

Interesting that people immediately think of workarounds instead of rejecting the governments and corporations behind the thing. Year by year Overton Window moves, workarounds become more and more involved and eventually people will give up and become just living datapoints on corporate/government dashboard.
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