[_] would any of you ever do this?
mac jordan
mac.jordan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 11:37:58 BST 2006
I've just had a phone call from someone. "Oh, you'll be surprised to
get this call, I expect".
yes - I was. Because I had looked at his web site yesterday, and he
extracted our IP from his logs (presumably), and discovering that I
was a web developer, rang me up to see why I was looking at them, and
what I thought of them.
now, I know that web logs catch this information - and indeed, we
capture it ourselves, and analyse it. But I would never *ever* dream
of phoning someone who had appeared in my web logs - I think that's a
real invasion of privacy.
am I alone?
--
mac jordan
home: www.kestrel.org
work: www.webhorus.net
them: www.jordan-cats.org
get this call, I expect".
yes - I was. Because I had looked at his web site yesterday, and he
extracted our IP from his logs (presumably), and discovering that I
was a web developer, rang me up to see why I was looking at them, and
what I thought of them.
now, I know that web logs catch this information - and indeed, we
capture it ourselves, and analyse it. But I would never *ever* dream
of phoning someone who had appeared in my web logs - I think that's a
real invasion of privacy.
am I alone?
--
mac jordan
home: www.kestrel.org
work: www.webhorus.net
them: www.jordan-cats.org