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

[Martin Kühne]

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> Has got somebody the slightest idea about the aim of this research?
>

good question.

> "anonymized statistics" and "establish connections" are abstract
> phrases. Not abstract is that those claims are contradictory, without
> the need of much abstract concerns or paranoia.
>

none of these are crimes. and xxxjavaturtle69xxx actually writes
vectorgraphics in java.

> In the end I don't care, since I more or less have given up that
> nowadays people are interested in really thinking about protection of
> privacy, hence I'll op out, I only wanted to point out my doubts. Done.

Your approach kind of reminds me about how statistics is a much
misunderstood field. It doesn't matter what or how you record
statistics, you will always going to get rid of most of the data for
the sake of having a general overview, and nothing keeps you from
misinterpreting the results you get. That *still* doesn't make the
tools completely useless, as it's great for grouping many data points
into individual sectors. Of course it's not a simple topic, but you
can't fit a one-opt-out-fits-all-opt-outs approach to the problem
domain and think you're done?

cheers!
mar77i