So, a random violation of privacy is acceptible? If you use a service that ignores privacy settings, but you never know what piece of candy the box of chocolates will yield...It's OK? If you are looking in a girl's locker room, it's OK if you don't know any of the girls?
I went to that site and decided to use the max (250). At my speed it only took a couple of minutes to load.
A) WOW there are a lot of personal pics on LJ - and a lot of their owners probably think they are private
B) For each photo, there is an HTML code so you, too can post these to YOUR LJ. So you can take images that may well have been intended to be private, and "out" them.
C) Part of that code contains the LJ user ID. With that info, and the flaw I brought up, a body could now go see a specific person's stuff. NOW is it not OK?
4) Another weirdness. Many images actually don't link to LJ users' scrapbooks, but to other sites with the image. That kind of relaying seems to also be a dicey practice.
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branchandroot
Rhetorically, for thought
Date: 2009-06-25 18:47 (UTC)If you use a service that ignores privacy settings, but you never know what piece of candy the box of chocolates will yield...It's OK?
If you are looking in a girl's locker room, it's OK if you don't know any of the girls?
I went to that site and decided to use the max (250).
At my speed it only took a couple of minutes to load.
A) WOW there are a lot of personal pics on LJ - and a lot of their owners probably think they are private
B) For each photo, there is an HTML code so you, too can post these to YOUR LJ. So you can take images that may well have been intended to be private, and "out" them.
C) Part of that code contains the LJ user ID. With that info, and the flaw I brought up, a body could now go see a specific person's stuff. NOW is it not OK?
4) Another weirdness. Many images actually don't link to LJ users' scrapbooks, but to other sites with the image. That kind of relaying seems to also be a dicey practice.
My 2 cents again :)