Talk:Disk encryption hardware

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When adding external links to this article I think it would be most appropriate to link directly to a page with as much technical information about how the disk encryption is performed as possible. Two recently added links go to the sites frontpage, which does not give much relevant information. Can somebody find better URLs to link to in those two cases? Kasperd 08:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tomstdenis has arbitrarily deleted link to one of the products in the section. Since he works for a company that makes a competitive product, I think that this change shall be reversed and hereby request a review by impartial editors. I would not be surprised by deletion of all the product links (although I think this would be an unwise move), but yanking out just one - from a competitor - seems a bit odd. Dimawik 07:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure you're all aware that Wikipedia is not a link directory. I would personally prefer that we wouldn't have this problem in the first place. How about if we link to a specialized web directory and let commercial entities fight their fights there? E.g., {{dmoz|Computers/Security/Products_and_Tools/Cryptography/Hard_Disk_Encryption/|Hard Disk Encryption}}. Though there's no special "disk encryption hardware" category on it yet.

Do you think this would be "unwise"? I would say it's a win-win situation. -- intgr 08:04, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As I have said, I would not oppose deleting all product links from this article and can go ahead and do it - would you support this? I will still think that the anti-commercial bias is generally unwise in any human enterprise, Wikipedia included. In my opinion, this is particularly true in the technology field, where academia is trailing industry, not the other way around Dimawik 16:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note that Tomstdenis hasn't even edited this article at all. I'm not sure where you took that claim. -- intgr 08:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry, and perhaps I am wrong, but SecuritySurfer has done precisely two edits - deleting links - one of them here. After 15 minutes or so Tomstdenis has registered himself and went on a quest deleting many more product links in the Advanced Encryption Standard article. Considering very low level of edits in the articles prior to that, can I be forgiven in suspecting that SecuritySurfer is just a sockpuppet of Tomstdenis? Dimawik 16:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you should have explicitly stated your sock puppet suspicion; I did not go through the edits one by one, but merely had a glance at the history. Please see the sock puppet policy and proceed with requests for CheckUser. -- intgr 16:14, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have checked with Tomstdenis directly, and this link was actually deleted by the CEO of his company, Elliptic Semiconductor. So I guess technically this is not a sockpuppet situation - the direct control was actually executed via a human-to-human arrangement. Dimawik 00:43, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, these are called "meatpuppets" -- intgr 01:53, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As for the external links on this article, I would like to wait for more opinions. -- intgr 16:14, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]