[WikiEN-l] RFCU security (was Ryulong blocked ALL accounts)

[Matthew Brown]

On 4/20/07, Info Control <infodmz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Having a public record of who ran what would keep the watchers honest, of
> course. Is that a bad thing?

Yes.  It would be a violation of the checked user's privacy and
probably the Foundation's privacy policy.  For one thing, it would be
possible in some cases to work out, by comparison with other nearby
checks from the same checkuser, to work out who someone was suspected
of being a sock of (very damaging if the checkuser actually cleared
them of it).  Also, people would draw incorrect inferences from
examination of this partial data.

-Matt