| I feel like this is largely an issue about expectations and disclosure more than it is about logging per se, right? We have a privacy settings page, which I'll show you in a minute, but here's the public view of myself on the staging server. I have it configured to Maximally Public (and will have that on in prod). https://www.evernote.com/l/Aacj0YC7tCRIdbau2AgTrBORPc6kgX442... The redactions are just to avoid spoiling levels. The "replay" link is a UI templating bug. (It isn't for showing a replay, it is a convenience method for replaying the level, and it's now supposed to show unless you're logged in and able to play the level yourself. Fixing this in the next 5 minutes.) Now, if I (as a player) log into and view my own profile, I get a better sense of some stuff the system knows about me: https://www.evernote.com/l/Aae3c5I6TdZA7ZtONMeM_z-ammvZA_3FD... That is obviously not all the information the system has about me. If a sparrow yawned in a world simulation that I took part in, that fact is dumped onto an S3 bucket, somewhere. To be maximally explicit: every order I sent in. Every execution I got back. Snapshots of the GM's memory state as I passed through the levels. etc. We grab all that. That isn't an exhaustive list. Assume if it is amenable to being discovered by a computer that it will be discovered and persisted until the end of time. This is not exposed publicly. Here's the preferences UI. Verbose but it gets the point across, right. Defaults are "Anonymous" and "No Public Profile", respectively. https://www.evernote.com/l/AadESN5EzgdCzpFAQnR0rIuxA5Ghb7pKX... Now to a question which may be implied: "OK, I now understand that my info is locked up pretty tightly within Starfighter. But you want to tell people that eventually, right? That's how you justify your service to clients." At the point I'm on the phone with the CTO of $CLIENT I am a contigency recruiter. That means I only get paid if that CTO decides to interview you and ultimately hire you. You can bet that I will be doing my best Enterprise Sales work and showcasing your performance in its most positive truthful light. If I did not feel like that would be possible, that phone call never happens. If the CTO had previously mentioned to be "Be on the lookout, specifically, for people who are good at analyzing mountains of data. We need them for our fraud team.", and I had relevant signal on that question from level X, you can be reasonably assured that if you did really well on it I'd open the call with "The reason I'm recommending Foobar to you is because you told me you wanted folks who are really good at analyzing data. Let me walk you through the solution Foobar came up with -- it's a hoot." (Worth re-iterating explicitly -- that that point, we've talked on the phone and you've explicitly given me the go-ahead on placing you.) To the question: "OK, so I get that people outside the system don't get arbitrary read on my history, and I understand that you're essentially a firewall which is incentivized to only allow the egress of the best possible true packets: what about you? Aren't you going to be influenced by, you know, taking a look directly at my stream of HTTP requests and seeing that I fumble fingered a URL the first time I played the level?" To which I say: I don't care and don't have time for that nonsense -- I'd much rather concentrate on things which actually matter to an engineer. |
