On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've just been thinking aloud and wondering if the
debatable value of any
obfuscation of the retention length of Checkuser data, rather than clearly
articulating it in public, outweighs the risk and harm to some users given
that in the wake of the Poetlister incident we've seen that Checkuser data
is not compromise-proof.
While checkuser data can be circumvented by clever users, I should add
that checkuser evidence of Poetlister actually did reveal
sockpuppeting.