On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 18:14:02 -0700, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> Isn't Arch BBS already providing list of usernames?
The BBS's user list is only available to logged-in users. Although that
is certainly not an extended privacy measure, it still prevents random
people who just "pass by" from extracting
I was under the impression that the AUR git interface is just one big
git repo. Yes it checks out only the package you clone but the
references contain all packages (and commits). Am I mistaken to this?
Regards,
--
Leonidas Spyropoulos
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally
On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 18:14:02 -0700, Leonid Isaev wrote:
>Isn't Arch BBS already providing list of usernames?
>
>In general, though, I'd say follow the principle of least effort. Why
>just not publish the list of usernames and that's all? This way, new
>users can easily grep for them and don't need s
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:44:12AM +0100, Tinu Weber wrote:
> Because anonymisation: even if one dataset in isolation may look
> unsuspicious from a privacy POV, if combined with other datasets, it may
> suddenly reveal information that was not intended to be public.
>
> I admit that a simple one-
On 03/06/2017 10:03 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I did not wrote about the NSA. I only pointed out that even the NSA
> doesn't get all the data as a gift. Why should a researcher get such
> data as a gift? You are seemingly already that used to data mining and
> offended privacy, that it's good and
I guess I'll be the devil's advocate. I see no privacy issues in handing
over a list of already public information You could deny it for practical
reasons though, if you simply could not be bothered to scrape/export such a
list yourself. Denying or allowing won't stop anyone from obtaining the
list
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 10:52:51 +0100, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general
wrote:
>I guess I'll be the devil's advocate. I see no privacy issues in
>handing over a list of already public information You could deny it
>for practical reasons though, if you simply could not be bothered to
>scrape/export su
Op 6 mrt. 2017 10:52 schreef "Henrik Danielsson via arch-general" <
arch-general@archlinux.org>:
I guess I'll be the devil's advocate. I see no privacy issues in handing
over a list of already public information You could deny it for practical
reasons though, if you simply could not be bothered to
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Guus Snijders via arch-general
wrote:
> Op 6 mrt. 2017 10:52 schreef "Henrik Danielsson via arch-general" <
> arch-general@archlinux.org>:
>
> > I guess I'll be the devil's advocate. I see no privacy issues in handing
> > over a list of already public information Y
I really, don't want to make it any easier for someone to spam me based on
correlations between account names.
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Martin Kühne via arch-general <
arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Guus Snijders via arch-general
> wrote:
> > Op 6 mr
2017-03-06 11:18 GMT+01:00 Ralf Mardorf :
>
> Privacy is a principle. You seem not to understand the difference
> between giving somebody data with the formal permission to use this data
> and data that simply is available for everybody, but not explicitly
> handed over to somebody. Paranoia isn't
2017-03-06 11:39 GMT+01:00 Martin Kühne via arch-general <
arch-general@archlinux.org>:
>
> Gaetan's criticism applies to you here, now. please designate
> paragraphs of text which you reply to.
>
I was not replying to anyone in particular. Gaetan? Sorry, you lost me
there.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:39:33 +0100, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
>> I know it's not directly an privacy issue, but I find it scary
>> nonetheless... (especially since they expressed the wish to
>> consolidate the data with other websites such as github).
>
>This is exactly for the argument
On 06-03-2017 11:20, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general wrote:
> 2017-03-06 11:18 GMT+01:00 Ralf Mardorf :
>>
>> Privacy is a principle. You seem not to understand the difference
>> between giving somebody data with the formal permission to use this data
>> and data that simply is available for eve
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general
wrote:
> I was not replying to anyone in particular. Gaetan? Sorry, you lost me
> there.
It may not have appeared in the same thread for you, but here we go
[0] context, and the mail I was replying to was [1], for which the
forme
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:53:34 +, Mauro Santos via arch-general wrote:
>I think the point here is not so much privacy, as I believe everyone
>recognizes that the information that was asked for (the full list of
>usernames) is public
It's not per se forbidden to take a photo of a public location,
2017-03-06 12:53 GMT+01:00 Mauro Santos via arch-general <
arch-general@archlinux.org>:
> On 06-03-2017 11:20, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general wrote:
> > 2017-03-06 11:18 GMT+01:00 Ralf Mardorf :
> >>
> >> Privacy is a principle. You seem not to understand the difference
> >> between giving som
2017-03-06 12:58 GMT+01:00 Martin Kühne via arch-general
:
>
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general
> wrote:
> > I was not replying to anyone in particular. Gaetan? Sorry, you lost me
> > there.
>
> It may not have appeared in the same thread for you, but here we go
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general
wrote:
> [...] the quote in Mauro's
> mail did not render as a quote normally does in Gmail, hence I was not
> sure it would render correctly if I messed up the copying it (HTML
> entities and all).
Just turn it off. GMail's web
On 06-03-2017 12:13, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:53:34 +, Mauro Santos via arch-general wrote:
>> I think the point here is not so much privacy, as I believe everyone
>> recognizes that the information that was asked for (the full list of
>> usernames) is public
>
> It's not pe
On 06-03-2017 12:45, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general wrote:
> 2017-03-06 12:53 GMT+01:00 Mauro Santos via arch-general <
> arch-general@archlinux.org>:
>
>> On 06-03-2017 11:20, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general wrote:
>>> 2017-03-06 11:18 GMT+01:00 Ralf Mardorf :
Privacy is a princi
2017-03-06 14:36 GMT+01:00 Mauro Santos via arch-general
:
> On 06-03-2017 12:45, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general wrote:
>> 2017-03-06 12:53 GMT+01:00 Mauro Santos via arch-general <
>> arch-general@archlinux.org>:
>>
>>> On 06-03-2017 11:20, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general wrote:
2017-0
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 13:45:37 +0100, Henrik Danielsson wrote:
>We could simply deny the AUR username request it for the same reason,
>or no reason at all. Since some people seem uncomfortable about what
>could be derived from a potential correlation of publicly available
>data, that's most likely the
2017-03-06 15:01 GMT+01:00 Ralf Mardorf :
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 13:45:37 +0100, Henrik Danielsson wrote:
>>We could simply deny the AUR username request it for the same reason,
>>or no reason at all. Since some people seem uncomfortable about what
>>could be derived from a potential correlation of p
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Much likely nothing bad
> would happen by handing out a list, but to avoid a "Now, why didn't I
> think of that?"-issue the easiest solution seems to reject such
> requests in general, at least as long as it's not obviously that the
> research
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:18:43 +0100, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf
>wrote:
>> Much likely nothing bad
>> would happen by handing out a list, but to avoid a "Now, why didn't I
>> think of that?"-issue the easiest solution seems to reject such
>> re
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Has got somebody the slightest idea about the aim of this research?
>
good question.
> "anonymized statistics" and "establish connections" are abstract
> phrases. Not abstract is that those claims are contradictory, without
> the need of much
Hi,
ok a last reply to this topic.
Since the usernames are anyway public, there is a reason to ask for a
list.
- politeness?
- laziness?
- something related to laws?
- ??
Perhaps the research has nothing to do with AUR and github, but e.g.
with a method, maybe an algorithm to "establish connect
Mauro Santos via arch-general writes:
> On 05-03-2017 13:35, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was recently contacted by a Polish researcher asking for a list of AUR
>> account names. I did not expect this to be controversial but a couple of
>> Trusted Users raised concerns on IRC, so I decid
On 03/06/2017 10:08 PM, YANG Ling via arch-general wrote:
> Hi all,
> Shall we focus on Lukas's questions?
Yes, let's.
[skipped - pointlessly quoted and then repeated questions]
> My opinions:
>
> 1. The first question: Are we fine with sharing the user names?
>I am fine. But I think some
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:46:14 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
>Let us emulate the forums, and provide a username list only accessible
>to logged-in AUR users.
So you recommend that AUR should deviate from the Arch related mailing
lists. Note, mailman mailing list could be set up to "The
On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 06:48 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:46:14 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> > Let us emulate the forums, and provide a username list only accessible
> > to logged-in AUR users.
>
> So you recommend that AUR should deviate from the Arch related
Eli Schwartz via arch-general writes:
> On 03/06/2017 10:08 PM, YANG Ling via arch-general wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Shall we focus on Lukas's questions?
>
> Yes, let's.
>
> [skipped - pointlessly quoted and then repeated questions]
>
Sorry, I'm not familiar with the rules here. I thought it is necess
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