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Lighttpd

By : Andre Bogus
Book Image

Lighttpd

By: Andre Bogus

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Lighttpd
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
HTTP Status Codes

Privacy


The early definition of privacy was "the right to be let alone". But since the late nineties of the nineteenth century, a lot has changed. As we create a bigger and bigger "data shadow" just by living normally, it becomes more about "the right to claim ownership of data about oneself". And data is a very malleable concept these days.

In short, we should take the means to try and keep the data about the site visitors to the minimum, to ensure a working site. We need not even store personal data; in most countries it is quite possible to match a person to an IP-address. Moreover, we should not gather more information about our visitors than necessary to process their requests.

But why, I hear some of you asking, shouldn't we gather the information? There is nobody other than us to read it anyway. In general, this may be true, but where I live, numerous illegal lists with personal data have made it into the news, while companies which got broken into because of shoddy security had to...