Selon jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>:
At 11:48 AM 12/21/2004, Thomas Koenig wrote:
Blogging, Webpublishing and Usenet posting are demonstrably public activities. '
they are clearly and demonstrably public if and only if there is no assumption of privacy built into blog.
We thus agree on Usenet and webpublishing.
an assumption of privacy might be having to login to view the blog, or being inside a password protected system, or being in a community of blogs in which some data is only viewable by certain members of the community. those are case that move the blog toward requiring confidentiality because the authors have an assumption that some of their information is only for friends/family/themselves, etc. if there are no known access barriers to the information, then yes, it is likely public, but we have to take care because it will not always be obvious.
I disagree. If somebody, inadvertendly or deliberately, publishes his or her blog with the false assumption of privacy, it is still public. Even a password is not always sufficient basis for a claim to privacy. Many of the password protected message boards, where oftentimes binaries are exchanged, are password protected through an automated system, that's still public, as the only reason for the password is the avoidance of indexing through search machines. On the other hand, if someone creates a "blog" purely for his family/friends/etc. and password protects it, then, of course, I am not allowed to hack the site or use means of deception to gain access. That should go without saying. Even if I would be a legitimate friend of the person, the data would be off-limits. To me, all these exceptions appear obvious, so maybe our differences boil simply down to semantics. Thomas -- thomas koenig, ph.d. department of social sciences, loughborough university, u.k. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/index.html