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Profiles for the user account systems of various sites.
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Saving specimens #240

Closed stuartpb closed 7 years ago

stuartpb commented 7 years ago

I've been thinking: it'd speed up profiling a fair amount if, instead of just having to rely on notes from previous profilings and/or dummy accounts, one could save the email from password reset, and an example of the loaded page for the change form, and things like that.

The biggest issue is redacting personally-identifying information, which requires a lot of fine-toothed-comb sifting through the source of a page to figure out.

I'm thinking, for now, the best solution here is to let users opt to provide whatever specimens they want in their own repositories, with whatever redactions they can muster, and link to them in an issue's notes.

In my own case, I'll be able to dive into archives to retrieve emails using the sender field, so w/e.

stuartpb commented 7 years ago

Yeah, I've started exporting specimens to my repo of test accounts, so I think this can be pretty much closed, with maybe a note somewhere to suggest imitating this if you're doing profiling yourself.

stuartpb commented 7 years ago

Also a note that saving specimens for anything other than a scratch account is high risk, due to the aforementioned not-knowing-what's-personally-identifying. (Of course, specimens for scratch accounts may include your IP address and things like that, but that's generally a much more acceptable risk.)