[WikiEN-l] To have or to have not power -- "giggle," "giggle"

[K P]

On 6/18/07, Josh Gordon <user.jpgordon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm a member of the community and I want to know what information
> > about me can be gained incidently through check user and then is not
> > considered private and may be revealed?
>
>
>
> If somebody requested a checkuser on you, policy would explicitly allow me
> to reveal:
> (a) your use of a large national or multinational ISP, such as AOL, NTL, BT,
> Telestra
> (b) the country you're dialing in from
>
> Use of a Tor proxy falls into the same sort of category, and has been
> generally treated that way (as have all open proxies). No personally
> identifying information can be gleaned from such revelations; in fact, less
> is revealed than in the explicitly permitted data. The purpose of
> restricting information obtained via Checkuser is to prevent personally
> identifying information from being released; releasing such information can
> be downright dangerous to the editor thus revealed, especially if they
> happen to reside in an authoritarian or worse country. There is no such risk
> in revealing the use of open proxies; the whole point of Tor is to prevent
> such risk, and it does so pretty well, from what I can tell. In CW's case,
> all we know is that some editor who goes by the label Charlotte Webb (a
> wonderful name) is one of hundreds of thousands of Tor users; there's no way
> to know from that who or what CW is in real life.
>
>
> --
> --jpgordon ∇∆∇∆


Thanks for the straight answer with details.

KP