I imagine that this topic will get a lot of views because I am well aware that there are a lot of cachers viewing my blogs but not bothering to comment online.
Back to the topic at hand. Encrypting cache logs. Going through the GC Forums and found some topics about encrypting " It's not to create a note that only you can read. It's to prevent someone from accidentally reading spoiler info. If they want to read it, they have to perform an action to do so." That makes sense. After all as a cacher and a CO there are somethings we don't want everyone to see. It's another way of hiding spoiler info, etc without causing someones feelings to get hurt by say, deleting their log. "The value of encryption is debatable anyway. I think seeing an
encrypted log might even attract people to check it out out of
curiosity."
So what is this all about? Well for some time a CO has been encrypting my logs on their caches. This amuses me to no end because like me, there are a lot of other cachers who also decrypt to see what is what. I know when see an encrypted log I have to wonder what is so important about it. "Oooh, it's encrypted... there must be something juicy here, I will see what it says."
Encrypting actually brings a lot of attention to the cache log and mine in particular.
I often get asked why I always encrypt my logs on the CO's caches. I tell them I don't and that the CO is encrypting them. They mention that there appears to be no reason to encrypt my logs. The majority of the logs are quite pleasant and occasionally complimentary.
Which brings me to why? Who knows? Who cares? If their goal is to deter me from finding their caches then it is not going to work. A CO cannot stop someone from finding their cache Put them on my ignore list? What for? Caches are placed to be found by everyone and not a select few.
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