Re: [Social-discuss] On Data Privacy

[Sylvan Heuser]

On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 08:18 -0500, Max Shinn wrote:
> This leads one to question the scope of GNU Social.  Just because Facebook
> provides something doesn't mean GNU Social MUST have it.  For instance,
> personal messaging.  If you want to send private personal messages, use
> email and GPG; DON'T send that information through a web service so that
> your data can sit on who knows what server.  Encrypting that information
> before sending it through the server, and making the user download it
> before decrypting ruins the whole point of going through GNU Social in the
> first place.
What if you don't know the other user's email address? (In case user IDs
are not email addresses... but even then, you may only know/remember a
nickname) 

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S.