Uzume added a comment.
I disagree. The availability of ones password does not fall into "security by obscurity" because it is, in general, not obscurely available from other sources (and if it is, that is an entirely different type of security issue). The point being, security should clearly delineate who has access to what and make all things available to such persons and noting of what they should not have access to. Since the concept of most linked pages is available via other public means this clearly falls into that the category of "security by obscurity" (unless you plan to secure the data through all means of access which seems to go beyond this proposal). And since the data is already currently available, I maintain you are punishing users by taking away rights they currently have. This is a trend that has happened more and more over time with Wikimedia projects so it hardly seems like a prize for those that obtain get confirmed accounts. Also this type of data is more of a responsibility than a prize. By taking it away from a class of users, you are stating they are not responsible anymore. But we both know the vast majority of users in the class you propose to censor this data from are not abusers of it--just a small portion which choose to vandalize Wikimedia projects. I agree making something harder for vandals can be somewhat effective (that is in fact how cryptography is defined), but you need to balance that with the cost of doing something. I feel for the anti-vandals (who should be rewarded) but I do not think this proposal is an appropriate response to increasingly more sophisticated vandalism (one could argue there is more of less vandalism but I believe the level has not changed significantly over the long run but the sophistication of the means certainly has and thus security remains a "cat and mouse" game; the level of sophistication directly impacts how effective it is and how painful anti-vandals find the ugly results). TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213300 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Uzume Cc: Uzume, Lydia_Pintscher, Addshore, Aklapper, abian, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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