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

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 25 21:07:10 GMT 2009


2009/12/26 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> That situation exists already. Nothing is stopping someone from signing up
> for thousands of accounts then using them all simultaneously.

I just thought of another situation, when sites don't protect users'
privacy someone usually comes up with a firefox extension to protect
their own privacy, in this case you'd generate noise by making a lot
of fake requests for tiles in 2, 3, or even 10 other locations so that
it's hard to determine real requests.

It'd be reasonably straight forward to do too, when ever you request
tiles you just add a known offset to x/y/zoom and keep track of that
information so that repeat requests wouldn't be exposed.

I'm not suggesting anyone do this, nor am I planning to do this
myself, just pointing out the lengths some people can and will go to,
to protect their privacy.




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