On 10/03/15 16:00, Chris Steipp wrote:
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.
Aye, even if people don't like something, that doesn't mean it should be
avoided. For whatever it's worth, personally I think this sounds pretty
awesome, and even if it doesn't work, it would be worth the risk to try
it, because if it does the benefit could be enormous.
-I
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