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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 12:24:48 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Peter da Silva <peter@BAILEYNM.COM>
Subject: Re: [archiving MUDs/MOOs] = Consent?
In-Reply-To: <199706111650.LAA21002@web.nmti.com> from "George Edw. Seymour"
at Jun 11, 97 08:17:17 am
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>>There are also privacy issues with archiving MUDs. People consider their area on the MUD their private property, and put all sorts of personal information there. I think it's unreasonable to violate this expectation of privacy.
>[florist calling you on the plane scenario]
I think you're commingling two separate privacy issues here.
A better analogy would be finding that someone had built an exact replica of your house, down to the love letters in the box under the bed, and the tax forms in your file cabinet.
Just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be done. At any rate, all the non-public areas of the MUD should be deleted from any publicly available database (as seems to have been done for Islandia).
For an example of a similar problem, someone put up a snapshot of the final state of the famous ITS timesharing system at MIT for FTP access. This was promptly taken down again when an amount of personal information found scattered about the database. And that was on a system that was originally set up with *no* security (everyone was "superuser"), and therefore no privacy. The net has changed since ITS was up...
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Peter da Silva <peter@BAILEYNM.COM>
Subject: Re: [archiving MUDs/MOOs] = Consent?
In-Reply-To: <199706111650.LAA21002@web.nmti.com> from "George Edw. Seymour"
at Jun 11, 97 08:17:17 am
Content-Type: text
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>>There are also privacy issues with archiving MUDs. People consider their area on the MUD their private property, and put all sorts of personal information there. I think it's unreasonable to violate this expectation of privacy.
>[florist calling you on the plane scenario]
I think you're commingling two separate privacy issues here.
A better analogy would be finding that someone had built an exact replica of your house, down to the love letters in the box under the bed, and the tax forms in your file cabinet.
Just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be done. At any rate, all the non-public areas of the MUD should be deleted from any publicly available database (as seems to have been done for Islandia).
For an example of a similar problem, someone put up a snapshot of the final state of the famous ITS timesharing system at MIT for FTP access. This was promptly taken down again when an amount of personal information found scattered about the database. And that was on a system that was originally set up with *no* security (everyone was "superuser"), and therefore no privacy. The net has changed since ITS was up...
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