Moreover this may well be a breach of policy, TOS and even law.
On 31 March 2015 at 01:15, Oliver Keyes ironholds@gmail.com wrote:
So, let me get this right:
- You announced that, as David puts it, noting anonymous IPs is the
same as all-the-NSA-stuff-ever; 2. People disputed it, but suggested you go form local consensus that this was problematic or participate in efforts to improve how we mask and handle data if that doesn't work for you; 3. You decided that this was hard and a satirical breaching experiment would be more enjoyable?
I'm...really not sure how this could possibly seem like a constructive way to go about solving for this problem, to you. Andrew Gray's advice is good advice, and still stands.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
So, you are offering a prize equivalent to US $2.50? Not exactly an inspirational amount of money (though perhaps that is the point).
-Robert Rohde
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Brian reflection@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure many of you recall the Netflix Prize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize. This is that, for
Wikipedia!
Although the initial goal of the Netflix Prize was to design a collaborative filtering algorithm, it became notorious when the data was used to de-anonymize Netflix users. Researchers proved that given just a user's movie ratings on one site, you can plug those ratings into
another
site, such as the IMDB. You can then take that information, and with
some
Google searches and optionally a bit of cash (for websites that sell
user
information, including, in some cases, their SSN) figure out who they
are.
You could even drive up to their house and take a selfie with them, or follow them to work and meet their boss and tell them about their views
on
the topics they were editing.
Here, we'll cut straight to the privacy chase. Using just the full
history
dump of the English Wikipedia, excluding edits from any logged-in users, identify five people. You must confirm their identities with them, and privately prove to me that you've done this. I will then nominate you as the winner and send you one million Satoshis (the smallest unit of
Bitcoin,
times 1 million), in addition to updating this thread.
I suspect this challenge will be very easy for anyone who is determined. Indeed, even if MediaWiki no longer displayed IP addresses, there would still be enough information to identify people. Completely getting rid
of
the edit history would largely solve the problem. In the mean time, this Prize will serve as a reminder that when Wikipedia says "Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits." what they mean is,
"People
will probably be able to figure out where you live and embarrass you."
An extra million Satoshis for each NSA employee that you identify. A
full
bitcoin if you take a selfie with them.
Let the games begin!
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