----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Wolff" <[email protected]>

> Thanks for taking the time to write these two emails. You raise an
> interesting point about having everything on one domain. I really
> don't think that's practical for political reasons (not to mention
> technical disruption), but it would allow people to be more lost in
> the crowd, especially for small languages. Some of the discussion
> about this stuff has taken place on bugzilla. Have you read through
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47832 ?

I should think we might be able to run a proxy that would handle such 
hiding, no?

> Personally I think we need to make a more formal list of who all the
> potential threats we could face are, and then expand that list to
> include what we would need to do to protect ourselves from the
> different types of threats (or which threats we chose not to care
> about). Some kid who downloads a firesheep-type program is very
> different type of threat then that of a state agent, and a state agent
> that is just trying to do broad spying is different from a state agent
> targeting a specific user. Lots of these discussion seem to end up
> being: lets do everything to try to protect against everything, which
> I don't think is the right mindset, as you can't protect against
> everything, and if you don't know what specifically you are trying to
> protect against, you end up missing things.

Definitely: the potential attack surfaces need to be explicitly 
itemized.

Cheers,
-- jra
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