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<div class="im">On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Liz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edodd@billiau.net" target="_blank">edodd@billiau.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:<br>> 1. What do we want to protect?<br></blockquote>
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<div>The data is fully open, but some people want to reduce their fingerprint on the data to protect themselves, for example they submit their GPX tracks privately so it will not be possible to derive from them where he lives or works. This doesn't mean he is holding back data, he only chooses to give it without his fingerprints.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> 2. Whom do we need to protect us against?<br></blockquote>
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<div>The whom depends also on from where, I will give you something on point 4 as this have to do more with that.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> 3. What resources (and what other means to get to 1.) does that guy have?<br>><br></blockquote>
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<div>There are several forms of protection, several of them can be applied to OSM, and some of them doesn't need much resources to implement.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> Sometimes, for a balanced reaction, you might also want to add:<br>><br>> 4. How realistic is the threat *currently*, and if the threat is not<br>
> currently realistic, then how much damage would be done if one just<br>> waits until the threat becomes real?<br><br></blockquote>
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<div>As part of my job I have to follow up on the ISPS regulation, it is an international regulation regarding ship and port security. It clearly identifies that the level of threat is different around the world, you cannot sit safely in Germany or England saying that there are no threats so we do not need security measures, when people participating in this project are from countries where the reality is completely different than western Europe. I myself is mostly connected from Brazil, though at work I have (at the moment) satellite link via Norway, there are people contributing from Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Marocco, Israel, Palestina, Russia, all of these are countries with a completely different threat reality. Marocco and Taiwan are places where snooping for mail addresses and passwords have been very high, and implementing SSL for login would to some extent prevent them from harvesting mail addresses, which can reduce the amount of SPAM in some of our users mailboxes, just to mention one real threat.</div>
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<div>What is the reason for NOT implementing simple security measures on OSM? Is it lack of security awareness, lack of resources, ignorance? In that case something should be done. If the reason on the other hand is prioritation, than maybe somebody should look at the TODO list to see if the priority is high enough, and maybe change the priority to something appropriate.</div>
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