[Foundation-l] Release of squid log data

[David Gerard]

On 20/09/2007, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> The only workable solution I can see is to make it less likely that
> stalkers will want to target particular admins.


It's tricky. The problem is that a lot of the people who get blocked
are blocked because they're arseholes or nutters. They will take a
block for whatever reason as an unacceptable assault against (a) their
ego or (b) the REVEALED TRUTH (in capitals). This then gives them an
exciting new holy mission in life.


> One way to do that
> would be to set up anonymous admin accounts that multiple admins could
> use. So for example, if a difficult user needs to be blocked, any
> admin could access the joint admin account to make the block. The user
> would only see that User:Admin1 had blocked him. Only trusted people
> would have access to which admin had made a block with User:Admin1 at
> time T.
> I know it would complicate things, and it might make admin abuse a
> little more likely. And we'd still have the problem of potential
> leaks, so it wouldn't be foolproof by any means.


Crikey, I'm trying to imagine how paranoid people would get with that
in place compared to now. It strikes me as disastrous public relations
to remove any accountability or traceability. If you think the
paranoids are bad now ...

A solution to an edge case that breaks the normal case is unlikely to
gain traction.


- d.