[Nykc]

It is where we met NeoTifa

[NeoTifa]

Yea, I have a myspace, but I only used it for a week pretty much. I made the colors as eye-bleeding a possible and I put a bunch of satanic videos on my profile and pictures of dumb shit just to clog up the tubes, then left.

[BenignDesign]

You're a hardcore bad ass.

[NeoTifa]

I am.

[gabehabe]

iluvmyboner!

[NeoTifa]

Lol! I forgot about that...

[WolfCoder]

supersloth, on 18 March 2010 - 12:15 PM, said:

how is it a 'breach' of privacy? you agree to their terms when you sign up. maybe you aren't 'comfortable' with how they handle personal information, but nothing is 'breached', it's given voluntary.

No not them silly, I'm talking about where the information could end up. I didn't really put that much real information anyway so it's sort of pointless- I have a habit of only providing information I expect the world to eventually find.

[KYA]

There is only the illusion of privacy on the internet.

[WolfCoder]

I wouldn't say that either. The factors are what information you have, how much security you are using when sending it to others, and the willingness for people to actually care about knowing that information. These effect the time it takes for the information to be taken by people you didn't intend it to be taken by.

If your information isn't anything sensitive in the first place, you'll have the privacy of people not caring since they most likely wouldn't even bother to look in the first place. Adding security increases the time it takes to get some information by slowing down would-be hackers, sometimes to the point where it's generally safe for all you would care about. Lastly, you could have valuable information, but the thirst for the information by someone has to exceed the difficulty in getting it. It's by this last rule that bot net herders are happy with just being able to infect a few people at a time out of many attempts because they don't care about any one person.

If you can even tell me what I've said to people and what I was doing on IRC and what server I was on in the past 6 months, my search history, or my IMs to my buddies I might consider your statement to be true.

This post has been edited by WolfCoder: 22 March 2010 - 08:13 AM

[KYA]

I would. Operate under the assumption that anything you put on the web will be accessed or stored by nefarious third party. If that thought discomforts you [not you, but a generic you], then you shouldn't be putting it up in the first place.

[WolfCoder]

Except for sometimes you need to have information on the internet to do something, or information has been generated as a result of something you're doing and you don't want just anyone to know. This is why if your information is important and you don't want to take your chances with people deciding they want to know it, you add security until it reaches a point of safety.

This is why I don't like MySpace or Facebook and never really used Facebook that much at all. Sure they have security, but if you're going to deposit information onto your profile and share it with nobody it defeats the purpose of the website which is to share the information with at least somebody. This is stupid. Therefore, I trashed the account.

Now let's take a look at LastFM, Grooveshark, DeviantART, or some other website like these. These are minimal-information social networking sites. They gather information on the kind of music I listen to which is not exactly a matter of safety. All the website needs to know is that I am WolfCoder and this is the kind of things I listen to. These are the things I have drawn (even though I haven't updated it in years and it really shows). No once cares that I put in my alias fillers I always do since they are not the point of each of these websites.

[KYA]

Right, that would be called "the cost of doing business" or an "operational risk".


Life has 'em.

[supersloth]

WolfCoder, on 22 March 2010 - 06:44 AM, said:

supersloth, on 18 March 2010 - 12:15 PM, said:

how is it a 'breach' of privacy? you agree to their terms when you sign up. maybe you aren't 'comfortable' with how they handle personal information, but nothing is 'breached', it's given voluntary.

No not them silly, I'm talking about where the information could end up. I didn't really put that much real information anyway so it's sort of pointless- I have a habit of only providing information I expect the world to eventually find.

it's still not a breach to anyone who volunteered the information. like kya said, it's a level of acceptable risk. if it's not a risk you are willing to take, fine, good on you for being knowledgeable enough to make that decision. but a breach would be a blatant disregard of the rules, laws, or promises of the service.