[WikiEN-l] (Off Topic) Re: Biography of Living persons

[toddmallen]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro at 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.

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