From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The importance of secrecy
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:44:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmuxsfcps.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tvs0fcu0.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:40:07 +0200")
> Indeed. I had no idea that my lame joke would get Stefan's serious
> reaction, but in this reality, all we can expect from "anonymous
> browsing" is that the next person who opens our web browser won't be
> confronted by our browsing history. That's not nothing -- it's a
> valuable thing -- but we can't in any serious way present that mode as
> being "anonymous".
As mentioned in my signature, my response was not directed specifically
to the issue of the browsing history, but the use of "porn" as the
prototypical example of a need for secrecy. It trivializes secrecy and
makes it sound like something objectionable.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-24 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-16 10:26 EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-16 10:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 11:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-16 12:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 12:22 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-16 12:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 12:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-17 11:18 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-04-17 19:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-24 5:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-24 14:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-24 17:57 ` The importance of secrecy (was: EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, ...) Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 19:45 ` The importance of secrecy John Wiegley
2018-04-24 20:16 ` The importance of secrecy (was: EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, ...) Joost Kremers
2018-04-24 20:53 ` The importance of secrecy Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 22:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-24 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-04-24 15:58 ` EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, T.V Raman
2018-04-25 6:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 15:25 ` T.V Raman
2018-04-25 16:25 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 23:36 ` T.V Raman
2018-04-26 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-25 7:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 12:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-25 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-03 6:52 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 6:54 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-24 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-25 6:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-25 16:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-17 19:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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