Given the relative lack of cybersecurity, I think there’s a good chance of LessWrong being hacked by outside parties and privacy be breached. Message content that’s really sensitive like sharing AI safety related secrets likely shouldn’t flow through LessWrong private messages.
One class where people might really want privacy is around reporting abuses by other people. If Alice writes a post about how Bob abused her, Carol might want to write Alice a messages about Bob abusing her as well while caring about privacy because Carol fears retaliation.
I think it would be worth having an explicit policy about how such information is handled, but looking at the DM metadata seems to me like it wouldn’t cause huge problems.
Given the relative lack of cybersecurity, I think there’s a good chance of LessWrong being hacked by outside parties and privacy be breached. Message content that’s really sensitive like sharing AI safety related secrets likely shouldn’t flow through LessWrong private messages.
One class where people might really want privacy is around reporting abuses by other people. If Alice writes a post about how Bob abused her, Carol might want to write Alice a messages about Bob abusing her as well while caring about privacy because Carol fears retaliation.
I think it would be worth having an explicit policy about how such information is handled, but looking at the DM metadata seems to me like it wouldn’t cause huge problems.