On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Kevin Wayne Williams < [email protected]> wrote:
> Chris Steipp schreef op 2015/03/10 om 7:23: > >> Jacob Applebaum made another remark about editing Wikipedia via tor this >> morning. Since it's been a couple months since the last tor bashing >> thread, >> I wanted to throw out a slightly more modest proposal to see what people >> think. >> > > The easiest way to prevent a series of Tor bashing threads is to not make > Tor promoting threads. At least for English Wikipedia, there is no reason > now or in the conceivable future to permit, much less endorse or formalise, > editing via Tor. > > I believe there is a strong reason for it. Even if you use https for every connection to Wikipedia, traffic analysis currently makes finding out what you're reading fairly easy. From a risk perspective, if a user wants to edit Wikipedia on a subject and from a location that could endanger themselves, I would much prefer they edit via tor than rely on the WMF to protect their identity. We spend a lot of effort protecting the privacy of our users, but all it would take is compromising the right server in our cluster, and correlating which IP is editing as which user becomes very easy. Promoting the user of Tor lets us push some of the risk onto the Tor team, who are both experts in this and have a strong motivation to make it work correctly. So I think there is both a responsibility and a benefit (to the WMF) in allowing editing via Tor. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
