His concerns certainly hit home with me. So I'm listening to him and taking seriously the kind of damage that can occur.
Fred
On Nov 13, 2005, at 8:48 AM, Sean Barrett wrote:
For more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_hacking With the checkuser tool it becomes so much easier.
If you have ever met a political refugee, you know that they often are very careful not to talk politics with persons they don't know.
Oh, very nice escalation there! We now see that CheckUser is a tool of political oppression, if we're allowed to use it, people will be getting shot in the back of the head down in the basement of the Wikipedia server farm!