Policy-Discussion

[Sven Anderson <sven AT anderson.de>]

Duane, 13.01.2007 00:29:
> Sven Anderson wrote:
> 
>> As I stated several month ago, IMO CAcert should be just a framework for a
>> community, helping their members to check the identities of each other,
>> and therefore should take as less responsibility as possible.
> 
> I won't comment on everything you've said but there is a lot of reasons
> to do the exact opposite of what you have said, already their is
> discussion about social networks (and CAcert is definitely a social
> network of sorts) to spider out associations with other people and all
> sorts of things you could do with data if this was made open.
> 
> So while your intentions might be above board, there is a lot of people
> that would love to get their hands on the sort of data CAcert has beyond
> simple spammers that should never get it in a million years.

That's a bit to diffuse to react to, smells a bit like conspiracy theory
too, but well, everybody has the right to have one. ;-) In general I would
say, if you want to avoid, that certain people get certain data, the only
way is not to create that data. Everything else will be an endless and
doomed task.


Cheers,

Sven

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