Thanks for your comments, it is ironic that you have to register but I didn’t setup the blog so don’t blame me

It is only theoretical because hCard isn’t being widely used at the moment, but if you fail to see the disaster supplying the bad guys with all your contact details on your web site then I suggest you pay more attention to security issues in general.

Time will tell if I’m right, I just hope that hCard doesn’t take off.

Cheers

Gareth

I’ll start with pointing out th irony that to comment about a post concerned with privacy, I had to register

Here’s the thing - spammers already have your email address. They can harvest them in all kinds of ways, and probably just generate them off domain names (before I only accpeted specific addresses at our domain we got just about anything @ it).

So stopping spammers getting your email address is game over. So, if email addresses are to have any value at all, we want to increase the worthwhile emails we receive - and making email and other contact details more readily acessible to legitimate users may help that.

So, while its a legitimate concern, and one I hear raised frequently about hCard, I think its more of a theoretical issue than a practical one.

As someone said once, “privacy is over, get used to it”. That wasn’t being glib. The challenge is now managing the technical and social reality that who we are, what we do, and much about our lives is known, rather than trying to put that genie back in the bottle.

Just my tuppence,

john