Moreover this may well be a breach of policy, TOS and even law.
On 31 March 2015 at 01:15, Oliver Keyes <ironholds(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So, let me get this right:
1. You announced that, as David puts it, noting anonymous IPs is the
same as all-the-NSA-stuff-ever;
2. People disputed it, but suggested you go form local consensus that
this was problematic or participate in efforts to improve how we mask
and handle data if that doesn't work for you;
3. You decided that this was hard and a satirical breaching experiment
would be more enjoyable?
I'm...really not sure how this could possibly seem like a constructive
way to go about solving for this problem, to you. Andrew Gray's advice
is good advice, and still stands.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So, you are offering a prize equivalent to US
$2.50? Not exactly an
inspirational amount of money (though perhaps that is the point).
-Robert Rohde
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Brian <reflection(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure many of you recall the Netflix Prize
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize>. This is that, for
Wikipedia!
>
> Although the initial goal of the Netflix Prize was to design a
> collaborative filtering algorithm, it became notorious when the data was
> used to de-anonymize Netflix users. Researchers proved that given just a
> user's movie ratings on one site, you can plug those ratings into
another
> site, such as the IMDB. You can then take
that information, and with
some
> Google searches and optionally a bit of cash
(for websites that sell
user
> information, including, in some cases, their
SSN) figure out who they
are.
> You could even drive up to their house and
take a selfie with them, or
> follow them to work and meet their boss and tell them about their views
on
> the topics they were editing.
>
> Here, we'll cut straight to the privacy chase. Using just the full
history
> dump of the English Wikipedia, excluding
edits from any logged-in users,
> identify five people. You must confirm their identities with them, and
> privately prove to me that you've done this. I will then nominate you as
> the winner and send you one million Satoshis (the smallest unit of
Bitcoin,
> times 1 million), in addition to updating
this thread.
>
> I suspect this challenge will be very easy for anyone who is determined.
> Indeed, even if MediaWiki no longer displayed IP addresses, there would
> still be enough information to identify people. Completely getting rid
of
> the edit history would largely solve the
problem. In the mean time, this
> Prize will serve as a reminder that when Wikipedia says "Your IP address
> will be publicly visible if you make any edits." what they mean is,
"People
> will probably be able to figure out where you
live and embarrass you."
>
> An extra million Satoshis for each NSA employee that you identify. A
full
bitcoin
if you take a selfie with them.
Let the games begin!
Brian Mingus
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