On 8/13/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/13/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Seems like all it would take to solve this dilemma is an encrypted proxy that delivers the decryption code(s) to the WMF developers. So the editor gets privacy from User:JoeSchmoe but Wikipedians with a certain level of permissions could determine the point of origin.
Logging in does exactly that. It hides your IP address from anyone without the checkuser bit.
Something like that would come in very handy for the editors from mainland China, and a couple of smaller countries that firewall access.
That's not a matter of hiding your identity, it's a matter of hiding the identity of the site you are viewing. Anonymous proxies/TOR do both, but they are different things.
Except this list has pretty much established to me that checkuser is used to satisfy curiosity, to find out who is using Tors, and other political reasons, so, logging in isn't any level of security, when it isn't strictly used for its purposes.
Exactly. Some of the people with checkuser can't be trusted. Answer me this: has AB ever been checkusered? Have I?
The last time I alluded to people with checkuser abusing their power I was told privately to contact the privacy ombudsman. But recent discussion on foundation-l has concluded that the privacy ombudsman has no power over inappropriate use of checkuser, because inappropriate use of checkuser is not a violation of the privacy policy.