If You're On the Internet, You've Comprimised Your Privacy

Kind of topical. If you think you can be truly anonymous you're mistaken..

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/perfect-privacy-internet-communication-doesnt-exist-6C10962853

It is what it is.

If you are posting this thread to complement the various threads about the dust up between CV and myself, I don't think the issue with CV was privacy, but more to the point that the problem was I took statements and information gleaned from sources where he had voluntarily offered the information and compile additional information that he never revealed (at least according to him) in any of his public posting on 285 Bound, Pinecam or here.

Secondly (and more simply) I violated the TOS of this forum. There is no issue whether a person existence on the internet is public or private, there is an issue with breaking the TOS rules on MMT.

Right?

Right! and thank you. All this other stuff is just a red herring.

Walter L Newton wrote: If you are posting this thread to complement the various threads about the dust up between CV and myself, I don't think the issue with CV was privacy, but more to the point that the problem was I took statements and information gleaned from sources where he had voluntarily offered the information and compile additional information that he never revealed (at least according to him) in any of his public posting on 285 Bound, Pinecam or here.

Secondly (and more simply) I violated the TOS of this forum. There is no issue whether a person existence on the internet is public or private, there is an issue with breaking the TOS rules on MMT.

Right?

Exactly....and thanks for realizing that. I think most people know that what you put on the internet is never really private. It is, however, your choice how much or how little of your private information you choose to post, not someone elses. Sure, if anyone really wants to research the clues that you have given, maybe unwittingly, you can't stop that, but no one should have to read their own personal information in someone elses post. It's more a case of common courtesy than privacy. I have had my personal health information posted on one site where it was relevant, used against me on another site where it was something I had not advertised. The info was out there, but if I thought it was relevant to a thread it would be up to me to bring it into the conversation, not someone else.

Fact is....jf said it best. CV has tried to live in two worlds. He cries about the very behavior he has demonstrated himself on more than one occasion. I would suggest the "golden rule" to him.
I agree that certain personal information should not be the subject of discussion but each of us has to take responsibility for how we protect it. CV has made it a career to let people know who he is and what he has done.
Personally, I think his case is a poor example of this discussion based on his own actions.

CV likes all the attention. I don't see PC or any other website he created as doing something for the community. More like his own platform to blow his own horn.

It seems "The Courthouse" is beginning to spill over to here. SwEEEeeeet.

archer wrote:

Walter L Newton wrote: If you are posting this thread to complement the various threads about the dust up between CV and myself, I don't think the issue with CV was privacy, but more to the point that the problem was I took statements and information gleaned from sources where he had voluntarily offered the information and compile additional information that he never revealed (at least according to him) in any of his public posting on 285 Bound, Pinecam or here.

Secondly (and more simply) I violated the TOS of this forum. There is no issue whether a person existence on the internet is public or private, there is an issue with breaking the TOS rules on MMT.

Right?

Exactly....and thanks for realizing that. I think most people know that what you put on the internet is never really private. It is, however, your choice how much or how little of your private information you choose to post, not someone elses. Sure, if anyone really wants to research the clues that you have given, maybe unwittingly, you can't stop that, but no one should have to read their own personal information in someone elses post. It's more a case of common courtesy than privacy. I have had my personal health information posted on one site where it was relevant, used against me on another site where it was something I had not advertised. The info was out there, but if I thought it was relevant to a thread it would be up to me to bring it into the conversation, not someone else.

Spare me the lecture... it's already evident that I understand what I did.