On 03/06/2017 10:03 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I did not wrote about the NSA. I only pointed out that even the NSA doesn't get all the data as a gift. Why should a researcher get such data as a gift? You are seemingly already that used to data mining and offended privacy, that it's good and natural from your point of view, if data is misused and any concerns are just crap in your opinion. That usernames are used in public and maybe even a list might be already published, is different to actively give the same data away to "researchers" and to formally allow them to use the data. You seem not to understand the principle of privacy. If you don't lock the street door, this does not automatically indicate that you want people to come into your house and take away your property. Btw. what is the aim of the research and how could the research be used or possibly misused? We don't need to care about such questions, if data isn't given away as a matter of principle.
I also don't think that the list should be published. -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808