[HPforGrownups] Re: ADMIN: Privacy issues

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 26444

Saitaina wrote:

> I'm sorry but a lot of you need to grow up and get on with your lives
> instead of worring about whose gonna know you voted Extream Right when
> your friend votes Left.

Left? My friends vote Left? My god, I had no idea, I'm so shattered...

> I really don't see how any of this information is damaging, everyone
> already knows I'm a bi-sexual, wiccan who has way too much free time
> over here in Oregon and supported Gore till her last breath (hence me
> being Extreame Left).  I dont' see anyone bursting down my apartment
> door and arresting me.

See, I didn't know you were Extreme Left. This will be remedied. I'll
send the Left-Control Security Squad directly, excuse me while I go hack
into Yahoo's records and find out where you live, your hair color, and
your shoe size.

> We are a diverse group, and sometimes it's fun to see that diversity.
> I'm sorry if your too stuck in your little private holes to enjoy that
> but some of us don't care where this information goes and just get
> annoyed with others who fill up the lists asking inane questions.

Well, not to play devil's advocate or anything, but the polls themselves
sort of fall into the category of inane questions, too....it's just that
the polls were *lighthearted* inane questions.

> Let me explain it to you in simple terms.  We log on.  We get a cookie
> that tracks us (well, most of us, some of us are weird enough to turn
> off the cookie).

I hate that they called them cookies, it always makes me hungry. Darnit.

> We then to go HPforGrownups and click on polls.  We then awnser the
> polls.  The cookie is activated to record our awnsers.  Our awnser are
> then sent to the server who updates the tally.  In a blind poll only
> our awnsers go, and in a non-blind our email goes with the awnser.
> Now say we think about it and we're more homo then bi for instance.
> Then we log back on and go change our awnser.  Now the cookie knows we
> already awnsered so it tells ther server this is a changed awnser and
> they remove a previous vote for bi and add one for homo.  This
> information is not collected save for on the server that holds the
> polls.  The CIA, RCMP, Scotland Yard, nor Interpool is lying in wait
> for our awnsers.  They are not published nor brodcast on late night
> radio.

How much late-night radio have you *listened* to lately?

>  No one besides us...cares.

Nobody cares? Really? I'm so depressed. Surely somebody thinks I'm
important? What a bummer.

--Amanda, also carried away by the scope and vehemence of the
protestations


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