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@david_chisnall @GossiTheDog I once investigated a breach of a majorly critical UNIX system that could have killed a multinational company, and found that the guy typed "DIR C:" in the shell he got, tried some more MS DOS commands in vain, and gave up

@McWabbit @randahl not if it leads to a boycott of its products

@codinghorror @Setok @dalias I am actually fine with Facebook charging €6 (iirc) for a privacy-friendly account. Also fine with the new kind of cookie banners on some newspaper websites that say up front that either they track you, or you pay for access. Just be honest about it. It’s the sneaky profile building that I totally agree with being illegal.

@Setok @dalias @codinghorror it hasn’t changed anything because it’s not enforced (well almost)

@Setok @dalias @codinghorror I would not advise startups to behave unethically because it’s easier, no. In fact, shouldn’t it be an eye opener that a law that requires people to do the right thing (don’t track people without consent) is viewed as wrong simply because it takes a tiny bite out of the ability to move fast and break things?

@Setok @dalias @codinghorror Not if you do analytics based on your own web server logs. You only need consent if you use a data guzzling third party analytics tool.