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Originally Posted by xes View Post
Now that i have explained what is under the hood of the services you are using, please let me understand why if you are a good licit member of this community you need tor to browse or contribute to wiki hiding your real ip or userid.
xes, thank you for taking the time to reply. I appreciate that your job is voluntary and that the recent maemo.org spam attacks have come as an unwelcomed inconvenience.

Since the revelations of Edward Snowden I have taken internet privacy more seriously than ever before and as a consequence it has become natural to me that I should use Tor for all internet activity. Having to disable Tor just to read the wiki or bug tracker is an inconvenience. Preventing read-only access does not help in any way to prevent spammers. I would recommend a policy similar to Wikipaedia where everyone has read-only access and should someone wish to update the wiki they are required to either validate their identity by logging in or they must disable Tor entirely.

As I already said, I appreciate that your job is voluntary so I would say there's no rush to implement this but I would at least like an acknowledgement that this is something that would be achievable in the near future.

Cheers.
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