I would like to revisit a question I floated during the ethics debate, and ask for your insight and perspective. A couple of background rules first, 1) by publicly accessible I mean websites that do not require a password or which may require registration but most (if not all) requests for access are granted. I do not mean sites where registration must be vetted through an individual before access is given. 2) No more than one level of "what if" is allowed. Once you get to that second "what if" or an "and" on the first stated "what if," you are already in very "iffy" territory...I hope we can all agree on that point. So here is my question, how is a researcher more dangerous to online content producers in publicly accessible websites than any other viewer/reader who has access to their words/multi-media presentations/etc? To make that a less complex sentence, how are researchers more dangerous to their online subjects than any other person who might access their publicly available site? Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and IUPUC, Columbus IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com