Checklists Are The Thief Of Joy - Dhole Moments
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I have never seen security and privacy comparison tables (henceforth referred to simply as “checklists” for brevity) used for any other purpose but deception. After pondering this obser…

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/20989376

Where Soatok goes over why checklists are meaningless when trying to figure out if something is private or just for comparisons in general.

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Interesting article, and I feel that it’s pretty fair. At first, I thought they were talking about this checklist, but I see they’re different. The version I followed doesn’t seem to have the same issues (lists jurisdiction but doesn’t give it a rating, doesn’t list or rate encryption methods at all, no summary at the beginning, etc.).

I think checklists/matrices still have their place, as listing all the branches/options might get too cluttered for a diagram, but I do understand why flowcharts (or the neat venn diagrams that get posted here often) can express information better. I don’t think checklists are inherently biased, I just think you need a good decision maker behind the list.

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