[sudo-discuss] UPDATE: Anonymizing the Email List Archives

[adam scislowicz]

http://strata.oreilly.com/2011/05/anonymize-data-limits.html : Not the best
reference, but I just wanted to point out that anonymization is very
difficult if you want it to be robust. This is good wrt stopping current
generation spam-bots and casual google searches but will not keep things
from being correlated in the Utah DHS datacenter for example.

Regards,
Adam


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at gmail.com>wrote:

> Please do put the script up, and I will see if I have any suggestions.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Andrew <andrew at roshambomedia.com> wrote:
>
>> Anthony: Honestly, instead of trying to figure out if it would break
>> everything and then coming up with an elegant solution, we just decided to
>> sidestep the issue by using the same number of characters.
>>
>> We could turn the whole thing in to a script to put on the sudo git hub,
>> if you want to help with that let me know.
>>
>> --Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:
>>
>>> thank you for working this out, y'all are great!
>>> cheers
>>>
>>>
>>> Apr 18, 2013 04:26:07 PM, andrew at roshambomedia.com wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> >In accordance with the action item from yesterday's meeting, Bill and I
>>> have come up with a process for replacing strings in the archive. If you
>>> would like this for you please let us know. What we need to know is what
>>> strings (last name, first name, phone numbers, emails) you would like to be
>>> replaced. We would like to the replace strings to have the same number of
>>> characters as the original, so if you just want "anon" we will add random
>>> numbers to pad it out. If you want something else, let us know.
>>>
>>> >Keep in mind that this only changes the archive up to when we do it, so
>>> any emails you send after we replace strings will be archived as is. If you
>>> want to remain anonymous you should re signup to the list with a new email.
>>>
>>> >If you have any questions about this please let me know.
>>> >Thanks,Andrew
>>> >
>>> >--
>>> >-------Andrew LoweCell: 831-332-2507
>>> http://roshambomedia.com
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> >_______________________________________________
>>> >sudo-discuss mailing list
>>> >sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org
>>> >http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -------
>> Andrew Lowe
>> Cell: 831-332-2507
>> http://roshambomedia.com
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>> sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org
>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sudo-discuss mailing list
> sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org
> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/attachments/20130418/62e2b090/attachment.html>