security and privacy

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  suileif · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 12:17 pm

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  I have created a blog with the following privacy settings / visbilty:

  “3.I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose – Select this option to create a private blog. If you want others to be able to view your private blog (and add comments, if you’ve enabled them) you’ll need to invite them to be a viewer.” ref: http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  my question is: will this blog be completely invisible to people not invited, in search engines, and will it be impossible to access the blog ane the content in it? iow will it be safe to have private content in this blog?

  thanks

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 6, 2012 at 2:21 pm

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  Only the users you invite will be able to see your blog directly.

  But if one of them copies a post and puts it online, it will no longer be private.

  And if your invited readers use public or shared computers, then they must remember to log out. If they don’t log out, then another person using that computer could read your blog by checking the history and clicking…

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 6, 2012 at 2:23 pm

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  Oh, and of course if you or one of your users shares his password/log-in information with someone, then that someone would have access to your blog.