On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Nathan Larson <[email protected]>wrote:
> What if all of the email addresses that a user has ever used were to be > stored permanently? Then in the event of an account hijacking, he could say > to WMF, "As your data will confirm, the original email address for user Foo > was [email protected], and I am emailing you from that account, so either my > email account got compromised, or I am the person who first set an email > address for user Foo." The email services have their own procedures for > sorting out situations in which people claim their email accounts were > hijacked. > This is definitely something to consider, but I feel like it would involve changing our privacy policy. Or at the very least it would cause some controversy related to that. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
