On 2/19/07, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
For my part, I don't think the WMF *should* have any power over privacy policy. The end users should have that power. If they want to browse anonymously, there are plenty of tools out there to do that. If they just want to stop giving referer information, there are plenty of tools for that too.
Yay, let's just give away all logs to the public, everyone will be happy, and the ones concerned about privacy will be able to use Tor. Or some anonymous proxy . Why should WMF have power over that? Because the potential target for the privacy violation attacks is the one who doesn't know about the possibility.
Anyway, this is wrong place to discuss privacy policy. I just mention that there're technical issues where we'd fail to comply with it.
Well, I think you're completely oversimplifying things and either missing or completely ignoring solutions to the problems you bring up.
Your response is a strawman. But since you don't want to discuss it, I'll leave it at that.
Anthony