[Air-L] (edit) Re: Fwd: facebook user db (Searchable) available fordownload

[Richard Forno]

... and no, my last note was not meant as a reaction to anyone's postings/sentiment here.  Rather, I was referring to general media/industry discussions/statements over this stuff.  (Just so none of the AIR'ers think I was referring to them.)    No confusion meant!

-rick


On Jul 27, 2010, at 10:51 , Richard Forno wrote:

> 
> Aaaaand with that, the debate over the utility/ethics of disclosing cybersecurity/privacy vulnerabilities rears its head again -- as it usually does around this time each summer.   I've already seen several MSM articles rehashing those issues/concerns over the past few days in advance of the Blackhat/Defcon events in Vegas this week, with the usual predictable debates and soundbytes on both sides of this issue.  Same issues/concerns, different year.
> 
> I'm sure it's not the only such disclosure that will be made this week, too, either at the cons or elsewhere.
> 
> -rick
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 27, 2010, at 10:41 , Dana Rotman wrote:
> 
>> " it wouldn't be right for me to keep it private".
>> Oh, wouldn't it?
>> Perhaps, just perhaps, he could have written a blog post about the potential
>> privacy breach and warn other users, instead of digging deeper and spreading
>> it wider than anyone ever intended?
>> [just asking....]
>> 
>> ~ Dana
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> Dana Rotman, PhD candidate
>> University of Maryland iSchool
>> danarotman.com
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Baym, Nancy <nbaym at ku.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> "... and so I decided to release it into the wild as a torrent I encourage
>>> you to download"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Michael Zimmer
>>> Sent: Tue 7/27/2010 10:31 AM
>>> To: aoir list
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fwd: facebook user db (Searchable) available
>>> fordownload
>>> 
>>> This line is precious:
>>> 
>>> "But as I thought more about it, and talked to other people, I realized
>>> that this is a scary privacy issue."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Michael Zimmer, PhD
>>> Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
>>> (Interim Undergraduate Program Director)
>>> Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
>>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>>> e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
>>> w: www.michaelzimmer.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 27, 2010, at 5:20 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
>>> 
>>>> well... sort of :)
>>>> 
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887
>>>>> 
>>>>> don't you feel better now?
>>>>> -r.
>>>> 
>>>> Jeremy Hunsinger
>>>> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
>>>> Political Science
>>>> Virginia Tech
>>>> Information Ethics Fellow
>>>> Center for Information Policy Research
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Everything you can imagine is real.
>>>> --Pablo Picasso
>>>> 
>>>> 
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