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Translation of the first point, to best of my ability (If interested in more, please ask):

I have nothing to hide. In fact yes, and so do you.

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--> May I ask for your computer, e-mail and Facebook password? Promise, I won't do anything bad, only read.

How would you dare to answer no? If you have nothing to hide, you cannot make the distinction in what you disclose publicly, and what may bother you a little bit more. As soon as you impose a barrier, you have something to hide (and that's normal!).

The rest of us, human beings, are distinguished between each other because we all have a private life, an intimacy that we do not reveal to all. -----

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That's a silly question that calls into question your understanding of computer systems. When we say we have nothing to hide, we're not talking about passwords. Someone knowing your password can impersonate you. That's a very different risk from them knowing information about you.

If all you want to do is read the information I make public, send a friend request like a normal person.

Did you miss the memo where the repressive security agencies of the world have given themselves the right to impersonate you online?

Yeah, probably. I thought that was all security agencies. Isn't the whole idea of spies that they assume false identities to try to gather information they wouldn't legitimately have access to?

You want them doing that at the packet layer?

I'm sure they will do it at whatever layer they need to in order to create a convincing persona, regardless of what any of us want.

So you have nothing to hide except for things that could put you at risk if publicly disclosed. I think that disclosing any information could put a person at risk in some way or another. So I'll hide everything until I decide it's necessary not to.

How do you reconcile that with the fact that you have an account here with a history of comments?

Easy. I wanted to communicate, so I decided to let that information out.

Oh, please. He had a valid point and you made a personal attack. A precise definition of what should be public and what is private would be a valuable contribution to the conversation, insults are not.

That's a completely inaccurate description of my reply. But I suppose you'll consider that remark a personal attack too?

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