On 11/3/19 21:11, Mark Wagner wrote:
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 16:55:43 +0100
Oleksiy Muzalyev <[email protected]> wrote:
You can assist from time to time in mapping the areas were there is
one or another trouble, like a military conflict, or a natural or
technogenic disaster. The list can be found here:
https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL
This way it would be not easy to figure out in which place you live.
Unless you're mapping the exact same things remotely as you are
locally, this doesn't stop anything but the most naive effort to figure
out where someone lives. If a mapper is tracing buildings in Zimbabwe
and adding restaurants in London, which is more likely: that they live
in Zimbabwe and are armchair-mapping in London, or that they live in
London, and are armchair-mapping in Zimbabwe?
Certainly, it is the STO, security through obscurity, the same as an
anonymous user name or a rarely used e-mail for registration. For
instance, the identity still can be easily found via the IP address if
the authorities are involved in some way.
The really good idea is not to do and not to write things online which
one would not say publicly in person, even if the user name seems to be
anonymous.
However, there is a risk in not taking the risk. For example, what
seemingly could be safer than to watch TV sitting in the armchair? At
the same time the top global cause of death is the ischemic heart
disease which can be prevented by physical exercise.
In a similar way there is some risk not only in mapping, but also in
not-mapping well the district.
ref.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death
Best regards,
Oleksiy
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