Silence on the Wire

Privacy, Limited

The exposure scenarios discussed so far can be classified as the undesired or unexpected results of the way a specific technology was designed and deployed, despite the identical goals or expectations of both the developer and the end user. In some cases, however, the exposure results in small differences in the goals and expectations of the two groups. Although software-level privacy problems resulting from the incompetence or malice of a programmer are notorious and usually pervasive, more subtle design problems that are not a flaw per se are also being seen. Some of the more interesting groups of problems in this area fall into the category of data disclosure in electronic documents.

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