[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)

[Bennett Piater]

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.

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