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

[Risker]

On 17 July 2013 10:06, David Cuenca <dacuetu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
The biggest group expressing dismay about Tor being blocked are
non-administrator registered users who wish to use it.  Registration is not
really the key issue here.

Risker