I'd suggest that while Wikimedia projects are somewhat less susceptible to PRISM-style snooping, simply because we're not a communications medium like Google or Facebook are. However, there is plenty of non-public information that could be of interest:
- The IP addresses and identities of logged on users - Server logs (including logs of users who use the https version of the sites) - Times, dates, and possibly contents of emails sent through the "Email this user" functionality - Other information that is not kept at the application (MediaWiki) layer, but possibly could be logged at the database or OS layers. I wouldn't say that there's nothing to worry about, but at the same time I doubt we're near the top of the spooks' priority list. Cheers, Craig Franklin On 10 June 2013 13:05, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Benoit Landry <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > What "information" could the WMF disclose that isn't already available to > > some volunteers anyhow? > > > I don't know what information "some volunteers" have access to, who > qualifies as "some volunteers" (does the board qualify?), or why it matters > whether or not a person is a volunteer. > > By access logs I meant HTTP access logs. It's pretty clear that without > taking extraordinary measures, what you're editing is not anonymous. But > some people are probably under the impression that what they're reading and > searching (and linking from) is private. > > The IP addresses of logged-in editors are visible to volunteer CUs; > > > En-masse, or one-request-at-a-time? > > deleted revisions and log entries are visible to all volunteers admins. > > Wikipedia's inherently a pretty transparent system... > > > > Transparent? > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
