https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25281
Andrew Garrett <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from Andrew Garrett <[email protected]> 2010-09-24 04:10:44 UTC --- User preferences are not intended to be public. The most obvious problem is the watchlist token. (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > I'm not doubting that it could be, but perhaps someone could help me to > > understand how is this type of information being available a problem. > > I don't know the extent to which user preferences are available, but I would > say that the most (and probably only) problematic user preference is user > e-mail address. In addition to privacy and expectation of privacy concerns, > something like this could theoretically be used for e-mail address harvesting > or revealing that multiple accounts belong to the same individual. This wouldn't be revealed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
