[Evil Dave]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Illwinter has been following this thread but they are headed out of town and wont be back till about Monday. The impression I get is that the reaction to this has been kindof a surprise.

Which I find both surprising and not surprising.

OT1H, I'm not surprised, cause many programmers/software designers are clueless about security and privacy matters. Or they figure nobody will notice or care (which is part of the cluelessness ).

OTOH, I thought the Europeans had much more enthusiastic privacy laws than we (Americans) do, so I'm surprised they would have been clueless.

I sympathize with both sides of this discussion. Illwinter doesn't want to get ripped off (and we don't want them to!). Private individuals don't want to be spied on. Coming up with things that do both is hard.