Subject: Data misuse (was Re: template matching..) From: Marcus Carr <mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:08:38 +1100 |
John E. Simpson wrote: > Marcus, this is certainly a valid concern. If your data are that sensitive > and open to malignant or ignorant misinterpretation, though, I'd suggest > that the Web (and related containing technologies, XML among them) is not > the place for them. I'm more concerned with the fact that the consumer may be in a relationship that the vendor is not aware of - kind of a digital 'Fatal Attraction'. (Ever arrive at work to find your server in a pot of boiling water?) > In the same vein, I can copy and paste the words of your message into any > other sequence than the one you originally posted, and place the results on > a website or (if so inclined) e-mail it to Al Gore over your signature. > Whose fault is it then? I don't mean malicious or casual use of the data - I mean business to business transfer of information. Presumably XML data is arriving a site ready to use it for a number of purposes - one is for display, another is for feeding some undisclosed application. Where is the contract, or agreement of understanding about the reliability of that data? So I guess it's Al Gore's fault. :-) > Again, I believe your concern IS valid in certain "publishing" domains. It > just borders on the conspiracy-theory paranoid in THIS domain. Publishing is the smallest part of this problem - we're all used to getting mediocre data from the web; that's why we know better than to try to feed it into a business application. -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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