2009/12/26 Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com>: > I don't mean to troll, but why is security important for OSM exactly? My > bank details, yes. My email, yes. But OSM? What am I afraid of, that someone > will ruin my reputation by making edits under my account? Edits that can > subsequently be reverted...?
Your account may be able to do relatively little damage, but what about someone who has more access? Then you also have the possibility of collecting large amounts of account details, since almost everything is still sent in the clear, what if they have a lot of accounts, how easy would that be to revert? Which is the entire point of it, most of the time no one cares enough until something bad happens... If you want to talk about lax bank security I can give you a few pointers there too, where banks in the UK and even in Australia aren't doing to prevent common bot attacks already occurring, again, most people don't care until it negatively impacts them. If encrypted connections are so over rated, why don't people still use telnet to manage servers? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
