[Foundation-l] Data retention

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just been thinking aloud and wondering if the debatable value of any
> obfuscation of the retention length of Checkuser data, rather than clearly
> articulating it in public, outweighs the risk and harm to some users given
> that in the wake of the Poetlister incident we've seen that Checkuser data
> is not compromise-proof.
>

While checkuser data can be circumvented by clever users, I should add
that checkuser evidence of Poetlister actually did reveal
sockpuppeting.