Friday, August 01, 2008

On Passwords and Privacy

Believe it or not, I have no sense of privacy. I don't care if everyone reads my emails, knows what I buy or knows where I live. Part of this is based on the acknowledgment that even if I did care about it, there is little I can do (short of becoming a paranoid freak) to prevent that information being accessible by thousands of people, so why discriminate - I don't mind giving it to anyone that's interested.

On the other hand if there is one thing I don't give away to people I know is passwords. A password for me is not giving people access to your information - it is giving them the right to represent you. I don't care if people snoop into any account I have ever had, but I do care if they login as me and take actions which will be misconstrued as my actions and respectively will impact other people's oppinions of who I am and what I do.

Sooo ... yes, you are welcome to reading my email and no, you can't have my password.

2 comments:

Elena Casciano said...

I want to read your email.

Ivan Peevski said...

I could setup an automatic redirect to an email box of your choice ... :)