[info]nostariel wrote
on March 11th, 2008 at 04:12 am

but why make it easy for the unwanted friend to syndicate the victim?

I'm not sure what you're talking about here? I mean, I understand you're referring to the friends page feature, but every journal also has a built in RSS feed which functions in much the same way. With friending you're at least notified of the other person's behavior, and can ban them accordingly. AFAIK, you can't ban people from subscribing to your journal's RSS feed with a feed reader.

There is absolutely no security or privacy to be had with such a change, only the illusion of security and privacy. Such illusions are counterproductive at best and dangerous at worst. When an entry is posted in public, it is public. As in, it is available for anyone to stumble upon and read. This is exactly why f-locking and filtering exist, to provide privacy options for the user.

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