On 6/16/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/16/07, George Herbert george.herbert@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.