[Boston-editorial] Draft of artical on privacy

[Matthew Williams]

Looks good to me. I would just caution you that HTML formatting for 
articles is currently disabled on the site, so you're going to have to 
turn all those links you have into URLs in parantheses after the 
relevant part. Otherwise you're going to post it and the HTML code will 
show up in the text, making it no fun to read. -- Matt

On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:

>
> 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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