Privacy versus security
Monday, May 02, 2011
11:33 AM
Privacy versus security
One often hears "privacy" and "security" in the same sentence, but 
Actually, the terms are somewhat in opposition in a social view of knowledge.
A clear distinction 
Privacy is whether people know what you do or not. 
Security is whether people can change the record of what you do, or not. 
Clouds provide near-perfect security, at the cost of (perhaps seriously) inferior privacy. 
If nothing is private, then 
security violations can be traced. 
and security can be perfected. 
If anything is private, then 
security problems of that aspect cannot be traced.