[Boston-editorial] Draft of artical on privacy

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

Pete, hope you don't mind me replying to the group.

Good points, thanks.  Updated version in the same place
http://people.csail.mit.edu/people/jon/wrapper.shtml, changed excerpts
below. 

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:43:52PM -0700, Pete Stidman wrote:
:Hey Jonathan, 

:Why do you say, who says they're not logging IP's when
:you know darn well we're not?

It just that I'm that untrusting and paranoid :) It's a bit of a
geekism I guess because the readers can't verify there's no logging.

:But the main thing I am concerned about it our site. 
:I want people to feel extremely confident that we do
:not track IP's, especially after the flag blackened
:thing.  can you change this bit?

I see your point, struck the line and added some verbage at the end
describing what we do gain by not loggin and what we don't:

  IndyMedia has a policy against recording IP addresses in log files,
  so your identity is safe right? Not quite, lack of logging doesn't
  really matter as much a one might hope.  Agencies with coercive
  force, legal or otherwise, can see where you're browsing from by
  looking at your internet service provider (ISP), the website's ISP
  or possibly from breaking into the webserver and covertly monitoring
  traffic.  This means that site that don't log do prevent retroactive
  searches, but do nothing to avoid realtime monitoring.

:second thing is that toward the end it feels a little
:like an advert.

AND NOW WHAT WOULD YOU PAY?

Yeh, I'm a bit excited, would you belive I'd been working on reducing
my glowing optimism?

Added a caveat to the call to action section at the end:

      Install TOR and use it.  More traffic generated by more people
      with more diverse reasons and interests creates more cover and
      better anonymity for everyone. It may not be perfect yet (so
      don't trust it too far), but running it provides a fair ammount
      of anonymity and helps with the on going research to make it
      even better.

Well I'm running way behind so won't get this posted till this
evening, comments welcome till then.

-Jon

:--- "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
:> 
:> http://people.csail.mit.edu/people/jon/wrapper.shtml
:> 
:> is a draft of an artical I intend to post tomorrow
:> morning, been working on
:> it for a couple weeks and had someone else proof it
:> as well, so shouldn't be
:> too rough.
:> 
:> but additonal comments are welcome, it's a fairly
:> geeky technical issue and
:> I'd like to be sure I've renderd it intelligible to
:> a normal audience.
:> 
:> Thanks,
:> -Jon
:> 
:> ps if this should be in dispatch instead, feel free
:> to forward it.
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