On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
toddmallen wrote:
People are readily identifiable by the information given about them anyway. How hard is it to find the Star Wars kid's name, even from our article, where all the sources we use readily publish it, or a google search on the article title brings it right up? If something is in public already (which it by definition is, if reliable sources available to the public have published it), it is no longer private. You can say that's good, or bad, or simply inevitable, but it's still the fact, and to think we can stuff genies back in bottles (even provided that to do so would be desirable, an odd position for a project specifically dedicated to making information available to take) is monumental hubris. We're big, but we're not -that- big.
(Off-Topic):
And yet, see [[illegal prime]], and [[AACS encryption key controversy]].
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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And note that none of those numbers, -even when protected by law-, stay a secret.