Honestly, I'd treat personal data like that like learning someone's password while doing IT. I don't know it, I don't want to know it, and if someone starts to tell it to me I'd be like "shshshsh stop I don't want to know"
I've been part of plenty of online communities like that. They were great.
Thing is, even if you like your online community, you shouldn't share personal information online. That's been the rule since I started on the internet in the early 90s, and it's been a good rule the whole time. It's been an even better rule since irl attacks became normal (thanks for that, our recent refugees from the establishment press)
Thing is, even if you like your online community, you shouldn't share personal information online. That's been the rule since I started on the internet in the early 90s, and it's been a good rule the whole time. It's been an even better rule since irl attacks became normal (thanks for that, our recent refugees from the establishment press)
We have our friends at kiwi farms and now our friends the establishment journalists on here. Two sides of the same poison coin. Violate their personal code of conduct and your personal life can be up for grabs.
At that point, you have two options: either present yourself as an inoffensive gruel so nobody ever feels the need to go after you, or take some basic measures to protect yourself.
To be honest though, I'm particularly worried now that the journalists have arrived. Even if we assume the best faith on their part, how long until companies that do spam for a living realize there's this fertile ground for spam, with articles in every magazine about how great and open it is?
Unfortunately, as long as there are bad actors out there security on the internet will inevitably return to a deny any model eventually.
At that point, you have two options: either present yourself as an inoffensive gruel so nobody ever feels the need to go after you, or take some basic measures to protect yourself.
To be honest though, I'm particularly worried now that the journalists have arrived. Even if we assume the best faith on their part, how long until companies that do spam for a living realize there's this fertile ground for spam, with articles in every magazine about how great and open it is?
Unfortunately, as long as there are bad actors out there security on the internet will inevitably return to a deny any model eventually.
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