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Comment by TekMol | Hacker News Reader

Not only for logged in users.

Even more so for users who are not logged in.

I find it very surprising that I type something into your service and that gets hosted on the open internet for everybody to see.

And as a logged out user, I have no way to ever delete it.

For logged out users, you really should not store the input at all.

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No Phind links will be indexed or become easy to view for anyone else unless you share it on an indexable site (like Twitter), which implies that you're willing to make it public anyway. That said, we will add controls for this.

Not sure I believe in 'security by not finding the link'-- links get leaked through a variety of means that don't imply consent (e.g. browser history, metadata requests, or reshares).

I think what you have now is reasonable, considering the links are secret.

I am curious however how the Explore tab is populated? Are those conversations created by employees for demonstration purposes, or were they sourced from user interactions?

I mean, you should never type something on any free site you don't expect to be made public. That's an assumption on your part that is dangerous.

This isn't the posters line of reasoning at all, please don't derail the conversation with posts like this.

Really? You've never typed anything embarrassing into Google Search, like medical queries?

I find it very surprising that I type something into your service and that gets hosted on the open internet for everybody to see.

Did you expect anything else from an Internet-based cloud service? In fact, you just did that on this site, but I doubt you thought it's surprising?

He's logged in here and expressly conversing in public. You are comparing apples to nuclear reactors.

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