[OSM-talk] Why doesn't OSM implement a simple measure to protect it's users and passwords?

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:50:59PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Florian Lohoff <flo at rfc822.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Its not about the data you are uploading - but probably the fact that
> > you participate in an open project at all.
> 
> 
> Um, if you are nervous about others knowing that you participate in this
> project, then why do you do it? Is there an establishment out there that has
> an interest in preventing you from doing this?

Would Teleatlas, Navteq, Google, AND, Ordnance Survey like their employees
participate in Open Mapping projects?

> > We definitly have people who would not like their
> > employee to know they are participating in open geodata.
> 
> If it's important to them that their employers don't know they participate
> in OSM, then they should go to whatever means they feel necessary to get
> around their employers watchful eye. Nevermind my point made above...

Ahhh - Getting aound means using nicknames and might mean encrypting
your network traffic, wouldnt it?

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff                                         flo at rfc822.org
"Es ist ein grobes Missverständnis und eine Fehlwahrnehmung, dem Staat
im Internet Zensur- und Überwachungsabsichten zu unterstellen."
- - Bundesminister Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble -- 10. Juli in Berlin 
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