[Wikimedia-l] Temporary personal break from mailing lists

[Pine W]

Hi mailing list colleagues,

I'm not sure whether I should make this be public, but I tend to be a
frequent participant on mailing lists so maybe sharing this would be good.

I am taking a temporary break from participating on Wikimedia mailing
lists. Recently I am finding myself frequently experiencing frustration in
conversations on lists, and I am concerned that in my frustration I may
write something that I later regret. Also, I would like to be a generally
positive presence on the lists, and I think that a "reset" would be good.

I will remain in the Wikiverse for the foreseeable future. I like
Wikimedia's educational mission, and I like my current principal project. I
will continue to be a list subscriber, and may occasionally read list
discussions. Also, I will continue to read off list emails. Perhaps in a
month or two I will resume participating on lists.

Thanks for all that you do in support of the mission. The Wikiverse is
amazing and I am grateful to be a small part of it.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] please hire a CTO who wants to protect reader privacy

[James Hare]

Hello,

Technically this is a personal statement and not one on behalf of the
Foundation, but I am reasonably confident that whatever CTO we hire will
consider the protection of reader privacy to be important.


Thank you,
James Hare

-- 
*James Hare* (he/him)
Associate Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation 


On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 3:37 PM James Salsman  wrote:

> I noticed just now that the Foundation is soliciting applications for a
> new CTO:
> https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6515003866130505729
>
> Can we please hire a CTO who would prefer to protect reader privacy
> above the interests of any State or non-state actors, whether they
> have infiltrated staff, contractor, and NDA signatory ranks, and
> whether it interferes with reader statistics and analytics or not,
> please?
>
> In particular, I would like to repeat my request that we should not be
> logging
> personally identifiable information which might increase our subpoena
> burden or result in privacy violation incidents. Fuzzing geolocation
> is okay, but we should not be transmitting IP addresses into logs
> across even a LAN, for example, and we certainly shouldn't be
> purchasing hardware with backdoor coprocessors wasting electricity and
> exposing us to government or similar intrusions:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2017-January/005696.html
>
> Best regards,
> Jim
>
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