On 07/09/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Of more concern, any eavesdropper between you and Wikipaedia (or any other website) can run a 'Checkuser' on you.
I understand that you are paranoid. That doesn't mean you need to try and make other people paranoid. Eavesdropping on a connection requires a fair amount of skill and effort, so unless you have serious enemies, it's not likely to happen. Also, I would imagine eavesdropping to find out the source IP would be rather difficult - you would have to catch and analyse every packet going into the Wikimedia servers to find which ones are from the person you are looking for.
You can edit Wikipedia securely from here:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page
It's slower, but the connection is SSL, so can't be snooped - only the fact of a transaction can be snooped. Your IP will show up in the server logs, so will be viewable by Wikimedia sysadmins or by those with checkuser, but it's as secure as we can do.
- d.