On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Legal, as far as I know, favored the tiny amount of security through obscurity.  

I think that's a bit of a misrepresentation of our position, but I don't really have time to respond in depth right now.

After reading through the thread, I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt and say simply that there was a misunderstanding here. There are a lot of deeply problematic issues with wikimetrics, but the idea that we'd try to stop this "feature" is nuts - pretending that it solves anything would be a distraction from the actual, more serious problems that legal has identified. There are enough things to blame us for already; please don't add more we're not responsible for. :)

Thanks-
Luis
 


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