Hello, It has been more than 7 years since this bug was opened and it seems to me that this problem hasn't been addressed in any way in Debian.
I would really like to see at least the trivial obfuscation that Adam M. Costello proposed in [1]. AFAICT there is no disadvantage to his proposal and it could slow down spam. Also saying that there will be people doing directed attacks to the BTS so there is no point in trying to hide emails is like saying that since there will be at some point a thief breaking into a house anyway, you shouldn't try to put any kind of lock on it anyway. I am all for the openness policy of Debian, but this affects privacy in a really bad way. I would also like to propose another solution for this problem. What if there is an authentication method added to bts that, when used allows people to view the full details of people, emails and things like that, but, when somebody browses as a guest, the email addresses are obfuscated? People interested in reporting can authenticate and use the system like they do now. People wanting to browse the issues can view all the information they need (the bug no-s and adresses should not be obfuscated in any case). This way spam can be kept under some acceptable values... Please reconsider implementing this feature. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=35;bug=63995 -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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