On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 12:21 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > we can start show a little "risk meter", still > far down in the "safe zone". Jim can perhaps (depending on the UI) > click on this risk meter to get to those questions on preferred risk > level, but if not it is simply informed to him what his actions cause > on the risk meter.
To give the risk meter meaning, we could "calibrate" it by showing other relevant risk levels on the meter. For example, if Jim uses it to blog, the risk meter could show risks relative to using various cloud blog services or hosting on his own rented server. If he uses it for Diaspora the risk meter could show risks relative to using Facebook for various activities. Quantifying risk levels could be difficult -- at least I can't think of how to do it as I'm sitting here writing, but it may be possible. Are there any sites or services that quantify risks out there already? We might need legal disclaimers for all I know. But if we generally have the idea that FreedomBoxes lower risks, shouldn't we be able to communicate that to users? (For that matter, we could also tell Jim how he could lower his risk if desired, or what more he could do if he relaxed his risk level. We could also use it to motivate developers to find ways to allow users to lower risks even more -- a productive race to the bottom. Maybe developers at web-based services would be motivated to lower risks too if they saw how they compared with others.) Anyway, the big picture is that since the risk can never be zero, nor is there an absolute measure of risk, relative levels may be the most meaningful. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
