On 31/03/14 17:24, Nicolas Hernandez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org >> wrote: >> On 31/03/14 16:54, Nicolas Hernandez wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Toseland < >> t...@amphibian.dyndns.org >>>> wrote: >>>> On 31/03/14 14:56, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> misaakidis wants to add default values to visibility and trust for >>>>> friends, so we now have to take a decision. >>>>> >>>>> Which do you think is the most appropriate option for each one: >>>>> >>>>> trust: >>>>> >>>>> - HIGH >>>>> - NORMAL >>>>> - LOW >>>>> >>>>> visibility (keep in mind that we need this for FOAF!): >>>>> >>>>> - YES >>>>> - NAME-ONLY >>>>> - NO >>>>> >>>>> As identified at CTS4, it is *our* job to define the default value for >>>>> that, because new users have no chance of understanding the >>>>> implications of taking either choice. >>>> It is? How are we supposed to know the risk tolerance / risk profile of >>>> every single user? >>>> >>>> >>> Sure not, IMHO we could choose LOW and NO by default as the worst case. >> Except that that would sabotage performance and force wider usage of >> opennet. In general your friends - even your coworkers, distant cousins >> and vague acquaintances - are more trustworthy than your opennet peers. >> Because... >> >> "On darknet you choose your friends. On opennet the bad guys choose you." > We could add an alert message if someone leave default values. So they use the defaults and then they get a warning message telling them off for using the defaults? That's gonna go down well!
Better to have a sane default (NORMAL and YES) and a dismissable explanation IMHO. People shouldn't add their secret contact in the CIA torture chamber in Uzbekistan as a darknet peer anyway, since it's visible from their network traffic. :)
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