On 6/16/07, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/16/07, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If being able to identify admins is that important, we should consider
if the OTRS show-the-foundation-your-ID should be extended to normal
admins.
An admin who is doing nothing wrong wound have nothing to hide from the
Foundation. If they're editing from a situation however, where they
shouldn't be--say, work conflict of interest, personal risk, extreme
concerns for privacy--they they perhaps shouldn't be admins.
It's one thing to show your ID to "the foundation", and quite
another
to give it to all of the members of the foundation who have access to
these logs. The very fact that someone obtained and then revealed
this information about CW without permission is enough of a reason to
be concerned about one's privacy, in my opinion.
FWIW, I don't think editing using a proxy *is* against policy. In
fact, I seem to remember a prominent Wikipedian saying that the reason
TOR IPs commonly get blocked is due to the fact that they are commonly
used for abuse, and not simply because they were proxies. But that
was a couple years ago.