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[vicarz]

Pr0n WARNING! You might be in it!
Wow, turns out if you use photobucket there is a method of pulling your "private" photos and videos. TONS of private fleshy pictures, videos, videos, videos, videos only shown to trusted friends, videos to your lover, videos only seen by yourself, videos in which you farted at the end so you didn't even send it, videos videos videos --- are all over the internet and you may not even know. So, even if you can trust the person you sent it to or you didn't, but trust yourself, you cannot trust the website to keep your private videos private.

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[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

Heavens. The world might discover that I have skin.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Well, while some of my friends are not shy - I think if my teenage girlfriend (when I too was a teenager) had made a private video of what she did when she thought about me alone at night, and posted that, only to find that the entire school had watched it ... would suck. Many of my friends who aren't shy might not want the video of their personal or marital relations that they made solely for themselves were being viewed by shack-dwellers in Montana. Color me bashful?

[novaya-zemlya.livejournal.com]

I'll be in my shack....er, bunk.

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

Nah, i'm just overly cynical. I realize that there are still people who put things on the internet and imagine them to be private.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Your comment seemed to imply that the content of the videos was nothing to be ashamed of - which is an argument, but one I don't think wins. Here, I totally understand these people putting on stuff thinking ONLY THEY could see it. While it is dumb to trust their friends with their nudity etc., you would typically expect something on the internet only you access to be safe.

[joanarkham.livejournal.com]

Nope, you shouldn't. Have you ever read (and understood) every word of a site's TOS? (Well, okay maybe you can understand it, being a law guy and all.) And what if the site gets sold, and sold, and sold again? Not to mention what if they get hacked, or someone leaves a back door for themselves?

Back in my computer security days, we told people that the Internet is as private as a postcard. Chances are no one will see it, but you never really know...

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

"private as a postcard" - that's perfect.

I could go on like this for days...

[vicar.livejournal.com]

leaves a back door for themselves

Well yes, that would be the video I was thining of...

Good postcard anal-ogy. People think of it like a phone call, where only the beginning and end of the call are aware...and yet those are not only in packet form but also fap...tappable.

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

My comment was overly flippant, and was intended to refer only to my own "private" online content, which I tend to assume is locked well enough to keep casual surfers away but is not actually safe from all hackitudery. And which I am just not that bothered about anyway; the photoshoot with the shaved llama is safe in my hard drive.

If it's dumb to trust friends with your secrets, I think it's just as dumb to trust anonymous strangers at an ISP or content site with something you'd be mortified if other people saw.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

(insert big-eyed 'do-want' picture here in response to shaved llama photo shoot...)

Reasonable expectation of privacy is kinda fun. The law continues to evolve, though this adminstration has stripped it all away to keep us safe.

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

(you wouldn't want to see it; it's a drama llama)

It's not really about the law, in this case; it's about the technology evolving. People don't understand the web, so they make assumptions that are not warranted. And the law, even under a better gummint, would have to do a lot of work to keep up - it has trouble even defining the internetz.