Privacy issues in Ubuntu's IRC channels and Launchpad

[Carl Karsten]

I don't feel as strong about it as you, but your concern is reasonable.

That said, I am curious....

How long (in minutes or hours) do you think is realistic for others to
spend on this?

(like time to make #2 or 3 happen?)

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:14 PM,  <hatearchives at openmailbox.org> wrote:
> I have 3 "solutions" to my problem:
> 1) Disabling irc logs from indexing.
> 2) Deleting my content from archived irc logs.
> 3) Changing nickname in irc logs so it would not map to anything.
>
> Are all these 3 really unrealistic?
>
>
> On 2013-09-26 21:07, Tony Yarusso wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:10 PM,  <hatearchives at openmailbox.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Back to IRC logs; I would like to request that on server containing IRC
>>> logs
>>> archives, robots.txt should be put to block search engines from indexing
>>> these.
>>
>>
>> Since the IRC channels provide user support, and other people may have
>> the same questions, it is in the community's best interests for those
>> logs to be searchable, so more people can find the answers they need.
>> We do however currently exclude the offtopic (non-support) channels
>> from logging altogether.
>>
>>> Additionally, anyone who can prove that he is an owner of his Freenode
>>> IRC
>>> account should be able to request *complete removal* of everything he
>>> said
>>> on IRC from official Ubuntu logs, including join/leave messages...
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure we even have the technical means of doing this if we
>> wanted to.  Even if you can prove that you own a particular IRC
>> handle, you would have to be able to also prove that you were
>> identified to it at the moment of every message you wish to delete, or
>> that you had identification enforcement enabled for your nick at the
>> time.  Those would require some kind of tie-in with Freenode server
>> logs, which we don't have.  Even if we did, someone would have to
>> process those requests, and without actual paid staff I doubt that
>> would be feasible to handle.
>>
>> While I can appreciate the general sentiment, I don't think this is
>> something we can reasonably do for the IRC logs.
>>
>>  - Tony
>
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Carl K