[Foundation-l] Data retention

[Joe Szilagyi]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Bryan Tong Minh
<bryan.tongminh at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at 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.
>


I know. I meant that we've seen the integrity and security of OUR checkuser
records can be compromised, as Poetlister actually had Checkuser himself, as
Cato on English Wikiquote. Hence my questions...

- Joe