I agree that reduces the risk considerably. I think there are cases where the benefits of some amount of privacy-even-when-you’re-maybe-harming-people between friends are worth the risks (but the exact amounts of benefit, risk, and secrecy are up for debate in any given case, and by default I won’t agree to keep secrets that leave me impotent as people are harmed).
Things I’ve found helpful with the trade-off:
Having confidentiality only extend to people in the same social network, so the secret-keeping friend can get a sanity check without imperilling the one sharing the secret.
Confidentiality only extends to things they tell you under confessional. It doesn’t inhibit you from sharing things you noticed on your own or repeating things other people said, even if they point to the same conclusion as the secret.
I’ll note that while the latter is sane, it leads to potential issues with Parallel Construction, which I would expect a bad actor to almost certainly engage in.
I agree that reduces the risk considerably. I think there are cases where the benefits of some amount of privacy-even-when-you’re-maybe-harming-people between friends are worth the risks (but the exact amounts of benefit, risk, and secrecy are up for debate in any given case, and by default I won’t agree to keep secrets that leave me impotent as people are harmed).
Things I’ve found helpful with the trade-off:
Having confidentiality only extend to people in the same social network, so the secret-keeping friend can get a sanity check without imperilling the one sharing the secret.
Confidentiality only extends to things they tell you under confessional. It doesn’t inhibit you from sharing things you noticed on your own or repeating things other people said, even if they point to the same conclusion as the secret.
I’ll note that while the latter is sane, it leads to potential issues with Parallel Construction, which I would expect a bad actor to almost certainly engage in.