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Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

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

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Post by linsomniac »

freedomben wrote: post #35
linsomniac wrote: post #34

Very timely. I literally ran a Claude prompt "compare and contrast Notion vs Obsidian" and flipped over to HN while it was thinking, and this comes up. Thanks HN!

For a personal knowledge base? I would stay far away from anything proprietary for personal notes. I love logseq though I'm increasingly worried it's abandonware

My use case isn't likely to be a personal knowledge base, I've just never had any traction on that sort of thing beyond a blog/microblog. I'm wanting to use something specifically for organizing the building of a shop/ADU: todo lists, pinterest-like inspiration boards, costing spreadsheets...

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Post by chinathrow »

EMM_386 wrote: post #26
Tiberium wrote: post #16

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.

It's also trivially easy to fix. 1 min delete and deploy.

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Post by steve1977 »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #36
varispeed wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Rejecting the government is insurrection, it's the same as becoming a terrorist.

A terrorist works with terror (fear).

Also at least in democracies you can reject the government without physical violence.

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

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Post by steve1977 »

DropDead wrote: post #2

Big companys need to start caring more security and privacy of its users and employees

Maybe the board and shareholders of big companies need to be held accountable financially instead of being able to hide behind legal constructs.

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Post by themafia »

sph wrote: post #32
matheusmoreira wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Good luck with that. Companies simply don't want to invest in security. It's simply cheaper to write a post-mortem and apology blog post after the fact. The sad thing is that people are used by now that anything they enter on a website is sooner or later going to be leaked, if not sold as if often happens with email addresses.

Sue them out of existence then.

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Post by gbgarbeb »

argee wrote: post #39
lioeters wrote: post #31

Recently I checked back on Notion after a year or so of not seeing it. I was going to recommend it to someone as an example of hypertext, but I see now it calls itself an "AI workplace that works for you" and "Your AI everything app". This company means nothing now, seriously what happened.

> I was going to recommend it to someone as an example of hypertext What does this mean?

Demonstrating what hypertext is capable of.

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Post by mikae1 »

Tiberium wrote: post #16

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.

Some CMSs do this in their RSS feeds as well. Can't recall which ones, but seen it.

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Post by thatxliner »

lioeters wrote: post #31

Recently I checked back on Notion after a year or so of not seeing it. I was going to recommend it to someone as an example of hypertext, but I see now it calls itself an "AI workplace that works for you" and "Your AI everything app". This company means nothing now, seriously what happened.

They’ve basically positioned themselves as a workplace app for years now. A fully integrated project management and documentation really is just asking for AI to be part of it
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