Talk:WOT: Web of Trust

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[edit] NPOV question

The current article is quite OK, if a little too positive... e.g. what are the privacy concerns (a ref would help), any downsides etc. I notice that the firefox extension is 1MB which seems rather large. Is it open source? - we are talking security here! Are the communal ratings available for communal use etc? Anyhow, I just wanted to get on the record if the creator/main contributor User:Debsalmi is from WOT? (see WP:COI) Widefox (talk) 09:26, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV answers

The current article is quite OK, if a little too positive... e.g. what are the privacy concerns (a ref would help), any downsides etc.
I think these are pretty much covered in this WOT blog entries: [1]

I notice that the firefox extension is 1MB which seems rather large.
It is rather large, but that's because it contains lots of graphics and has been localized to 10 languages.

Is it open source? - we are talking security here!
The Firefox add-on hasn't been released under an open source license, but it doesn't have any binary components, so anyone can read the source code. Of course, it's against our license agreement if they do...

Are the communal ratings available for communal use etc?
We have a public API for anyone interested in using the ratings and have been known to share data if someone wants to use it.

User:Debsalmi is from WOT and main contributor of this article. I hope that clarifies things. Is it possible to remove that notice? Thanks, Debsalmi (talk) 06:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for going on-the-record Debsalmi. Hope this helps - I marked the specific factual claims that need references. The current article does read like an advert - see Wikipedia:NOT#SOAPBOX for details. When these article issues are resolved, the notices can be removed.

2 technical questions now: 1. The site ratings are stored on your server, so details of every site you browse get sent to your server? 2. how much extra bandwidth and slow down is caused by the extension?

Can you put in the licence details for code, data , API ? Widefox (talk) 09:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References and POV

References have been added to support the material. A section called Criticisms was added. Can you please let me know if this is OK? Should I include the more technical stuff (answers to questions you asked) in the article somewhere?

Answers to your questions (from our tech guy Sami, sami@mywot.com):
1. The site ratings are stored on your server, so details of every site you browse get sent to your server?

The add-on only sends the hostname for each visited site to our servers and even this information is encrypted in transit and our logs. The add-on also caches all received ratings, so they won't be requested again when you visit another page on the site or return there a moment later. As our privacy policy explains, we don't track our users.

2. how much extra bandwidth and slow down is caused by the extension?
It uses almost no bandwidth, less than a kilobyte per request. All requests are made asynchronously, so if you are using even remotely modern computer, it won't slow down the browsing at all.

License details
For the add-ons etc.: [2]

For the API: [3] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Debsalmi (talk • contribs) 12:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)