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by ericbarbour » Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:34 pm
Kumioko wrote:Of course that is bordering on conspiracy theory nuttery...but it is entirely possible even if the WMF didn't even realize they were doing it.
Quite so. I still think the majority of the 14 million login accounts on en-WP are sockpuppets. And it would be sooo easy and deniable to let federal stooges have access to user accounts via a sock with "developer" rights. MediaWiki developers allegedly can see everything--even user passwords. It's miserable and archaic and insecure software.
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by Kumioko » Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:41 pm
Yeah if the NSA were to do anything with the data I suspect it would be to merely download the entire database to their own servers and they could do whatever they want with it but again I doubt there is much value there. But maybe I'm just not thinking creatively enough.
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