[Wikimedia-l] [Advocacy Advisors] WMF response to PRISM?

[David Cuenca]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:

>  That'd be easy to solve were it not for the fact that - on enwp at least
> - TOR has been (and is being) used almost exclusively for block evasion
> and vandalism.
>
> Interestingly enough(?), our desire for transparency and pseudonymity
> actually makes TOR directly harmful to our project, since our only means
> of protection left relies on being able to block according to the source
> of an edit.
>

One possible solution could be to allow Tor users to register and to edit
while registered, maybe the registry requirements could be higher to avoid
extreme sockpuppetry, and the edits could be flagged as "Tor edit" in all
change logs and user signature.

Micru