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.

I think the article was an interesting read. From a laymen’s perspective it felt like it got to side tracked by the examples mentioned in the intro (the initial list example and signal vs mls).

When I initially started reading I had thought there would be more information for how someone that is new to a subject could spot and differentiate these lists from the ones the author says the article isn’t about without being an expert.

Instead it feels like the title of the article ends up being more of a sub header and the sub header “How Do You Compare Signal to MLS?” was actually a more appropriate title.

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