[Wikimedia-l] PRISM

[Benoit Landry]

What "information" could the WMF disclose that isn't already available to 
some volunteers anyhow? The IP addresses of logged-in editors are visible to 
volunteer CUs; deleted revisions and log entries are visible to all 
volunteers admins. Wikipedia's inherently a pretty transparent system...

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Salvidrim!

-----Original Message----- 
From: Anthony
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 10:37 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

There is plenty of reason to think the government would be interested in
Wikipedia access logs.

On the other hand, there's very little reason to believe an organization
when they say they haven't been turning over information under a top secret
order which they're not allowed to tell anyone about.

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think an official statement would be unnecessary and ill advised. It
> doesn't affect Wikimedia projects, there is no reason to think it
> does, and involving itself would be a mistake the WMF can and should
> avoid.
>
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Christophe Henner
> <christophe.henner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My understanding is that PRISM focused on private electronic
> > communication. I can't see a situation where we would be concerned by
> > that.
> >
> > But some official statement could help put at ease people worries :)
> > --
> > Christophe
> >
> >
> > On 10 June 2013 03:34, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> >> All edits and other actions are archived, but I would think there would
> >> be zero interest or utility to NSA. I would simply ignore the matter.
> >>
> >> Fred
> >>
> >>> This is a simple question with a potentially very complicated
> answer.....
> >>>
> >>> What, if any, are the implications of the PRISM scandal for Wikimedia?
> >>> Does the fact that our servers are based in the US now compromise our
> >>> mission either in a technical, privacy or an ethical sense?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> - Liam / Wittylama
> >>>
> >>>
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