I thought this might lead to a semi-interesting discussion, but if it doesn't, just blame it on the fact that it's late over here

I was just having a look through the member functions available to me, and I thought I would have a look at who was online. In all the time I've been going to antionline, I never really thought to do that. While I was viewing the page, I noticed the fact that it shows what thread any logged in (and visible) user is viewing on the site.

What do you all think about the idea of someone using this to collect data on individual users. I would suspect that if you knew enough about intelligence (as in spying, and suchlike), you could find out a lot of information about people just by viewing that page. Does that interest anyone else, and has anyone else ever thought about it?

I have no problem with people seeing what I'm looking at, but do we ever really think how visible everything that we do is, and how easy it would be for people to figure out what each person is like simply by monitoring their browsing habits on this one site?

Anyhow...discuss away :P

ac