On 12/27/2012 12:53 PM, Max Hyre wrote: > On 12/26/2012 09:03 AM, John Hasler wrote: >> Max Hyre writes: >>> Too bad signing requires registration with personal info. >> >> "Personal info"? Email, name, and zip code? You're being silly. > > Minor attribution note: It's Worrier Poet who worries about ID. > I have no problem with it because, as someone mentioned earlier, it > _is_ a signature (of sorts) on a petition to the gov't. > Unless I'm missing something here regarding this attribution note, it's not me who was worried about ID or about signing petitions online. Other people were concerned about it. I just pointed out that the type of information requested by the whitehouse.gov site is available -- unless one is using an alias and connecting and sending mail through a VPN connection -- via brief inspection of e-mail headers on postings in this list. As a matter of fact, a brief examination of IP addresses in the header can often pin a poster's location down a lot closer than the zip code.
I was also pointing out that people give much more dangerous info (like credit card nos.) to all sorts of other entities. Just because my screen name is Worrier.Poet doesn't mean I worry about stuff like this. If I want to lend my (real) name to a petition and give the entity presenting the petition my real e-mail addy, I do it. ;-) There was one person participating in the thread who apparently takes that to mean that I'm careless with the way I give out information online, and that anyone who signs such a petition is wasting time. To each his own. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50dc9285.2000...@comcast.net
