On 08/20/2013 11:05 PM, Risker wrote:
Perhaps then you might want to re-familiarize yourself with the WMF's policy on political advocacy
I'm sorry Risker, but you've got this backwards. Making a long-overdue /minimal/ fix to our login process is not political advocacy. Compromising the security and privacy of our editors for the sake of a government's censorship policies, *is*.
The very idea that editors with checkuser or oversight might even be *able* to login in cleartext over an Internet we *know* is monitored by entities that are demonstrably hostile to privacy is worrying enough on its own without introducing additional flaws in the process.
I don't even agree that an exception should be made to allow cleartext logins from regions which are even *more* hostile to privacy than the United States; and I would have advocated that no account with bits should be allowed to do so regardless of location.
Nevertheless, engineering has been bending over backwards to accommodate as many editors with crippled Internet access as is possible; inventing bogeymen and quoting misapplied bits of policy around ("promotional use"? Really?) is an extraordinary show of bad faith.
-- Marc