Actually, this makes me uneasy, too, and I can tell you exactly why: because of the shared-journal possibility.
mybestfriend has access to every filter I use. She co-mods notmyfandom_kinkmeme with somebodyIdon'tknow, somebodyelse, somethirdperson, and myworstenemy, using notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod.
For administrative reasons, notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod is associated as a secondary journal with mybestfriend as the primary journal, and because it's important for that mod journal to be anonymous, it does not show which journal is its primary journal on the userinfo page, nor does mybestfriend list it on her userinfo page. And because it's not my fandom, or because she is the kind of mod who really doesn't talk about the fact that she co-mods the comm, or because she doesn't want to start drama by explaining that she co-mods a comm with myworstenemy, I do not know who the rest of the mods that can log in as that account are. And I certainly don't know that myworstenemy can log in as that account.
But if all accounts listed as secondary to a primary account have all the same reading access permissions that the primary account does, notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod now has access to everything I have ever written, and there's no way for me to know that notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod even has access to my journal. And because notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod now has access to everything I have ever written, myworstenemy has access to everything I have ever written.
So do somebodyIdon'tknow, somebodyelse, and somethirdperson, for that matter. In short, a number of people I have not explicitly granted access to can now access my journal anyway, and most importantly, I have no way of finding out who they are or how many of them they are.
This is absolutely huge, and would pretty much make me dump almost everyone I currently have on my access lists right off my access lists, and I'd probably end up going back to InsaneJournal to post sensitive stuff, because honestly, some of my best friends do share mod journals with people I don't know (I mean, not actuallymyworstenemy, but I would just as soon not talk about $super_private_thing with someoneIdon'tknow, you know?). And this is not the end result I think Dreamwidth is looking for.
Shared access = massive security hole
mybestfriend has access to every filter I use. She co-mods notmyfandom_kinkmeme with somebodyIdon'tknow, somebodyelse, somethirdperson, and myworstenemy, using notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod.
For administrative reasons, notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod is associated as a secondary journal with mybestfriend as the primary journal, and because it's important for that mod journal to be anonymous, it does not show which journal is its primary journal on the userinfo page, nor does mybestfriend list it on her userinfo page. And because it's not my fandom, or because she is the kind of mod who really doesn't talk about the fact that she co-mods the comm, or because she doesn't want to start drama by explaining that she co-mods a comm with myworstenemy, I do not know who the rest of the mods that can log in as that account are. And I certainly don't know that myworstenemy can log in as that account.
But if all accounts listed as secondary to a primary account have all the same reading access permissions that the primary account does, notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod now has access to everything I have ever written, and there's no way for me to know that notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod even has access to my journal. And because notmyfandom_kinkmeme_mod now has access to everything I have ever written, myworstenemy has access to everything I have ever written.
So do somebodyIdon'tknow, somebodyelse, and somethirdperson, for that matter. In short, a number of people I have not explicitly granted access to can now access my journal anyway, and most importantly, I have no way of finding out who they are or how many of them they are.
This is absolutely huge, and would pretty much make me dump almost everyone I currently have on my access lists right off my access lists, and I'd probably end up going back to InsaneJournal to post sensitive stuff, because honestly, some of my best friends do share mod journals with people I don't know (I mean, not actually myworstenemy, but I would just as soon not talk about $super_private_thing with someoneIdon'tknow, you know?). And this is not the end result I think Dreamwidth is looking for.