On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote: > 3) Look at Nymble - http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#oakland11-formalizing > and http://cgi.soic.indiana.edu/~kapadia/nymble/overview.php . It would > allow Wikimedia to distance itself from knowing people's identities, but > still allow admins to revoke permissions if people acted up. The user > shows a real identity, gets a token, and exchanges that token over tor > for an account. If the user abuses the site, Wikimedia site admins can > blacklist the user without ever being able to learn who they were or > what other edits they did. More: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~iang/ Ian > Golberg's, Nick Hopper's, and Apu Kapadia's groups are all working on > Nymble or its derivatives. It's not ready for production yet, I bet, > but if someone wanted a Big Project....
A few things strike me there: 1: Is there one central PM and NM, or can there be multiple competing PM and NM providers? If the latter, there's no indication of how easy it is to set up a PM or NM. If the vandal can set up their own PM or NM, they can easily pretend to be an entirely new person for each edit, rendering the whole thing pointless. 2: It looks like Nymble allows us to block the person, but only for a short period of time (less than one day by default) at the discretion of the NM, since the "linking token" only works within one "linkability window". 3: The inability to see what other edits the user did before being blocked may also be a sticking point, as one of the first things many do when reverting vandalism is to check Special:Contributions to see if the user vandalized anything else at the same time. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
