undefined | Better HN

0 pointsTomasEkeli7y ago0 comments

If you didn't want visitors to your site you shouldn't have put it on the web. If you want visitors to your site without any strings attached you should serve the content without grabbing and storing anything about the clients.

This is called the "technician's responsibility" where I come from. To only track/store/process what is absolutlely necessary, in order to not be liable for the consequences when someone you cannot feasibly stop wants to do something untoward with the date (i.e. unconcented analysis, government extraction of data, breaches)

0 comments

nemothekid7y ago

>If you didn't want visitors to your site you shouldn't have put it on the web.

This feels dishonest. If, for example, I wish to ban certain people by IP Address, your solution is to take my entire service offline?

wink7y ago

I disagree on the not puttign it on the web.

I know the "logging by default" comes from a different age of the internet, and I'm absolutely for minimizing data collected - but I'm sticking to my opinion that as long as the default of every internet-facing package is logging IP addresses by default, it's not good that private owners have to face problems or a lot of work because of that.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse