alt Hacker News>Then it should also be illegal to write "I am an FBI agent" in a text file and upload it to Github.
i think it may affect how people would communicate with you there. And based on that it would seem like impersonation, wouldn't it?
>Then it should also be illegal to write "I am an FBI agent" in a text file and upload it to Github.
i think it may affect how people would communicate with you there. And based on that it would seem like impersonation, wouldn't it?
May it? untitled.txt with the content "I am an FBI agent" and no further context could lead a human to think the author is stating they are an FBI agent? Okay, sure. Then let's go a step further. The repository is private and you never share it with anyone. At that point, the sentence is just as visible as when you type it into Google's search box or into a chatbot's window. Is that impersonation too?