User blog comment:Deadcoder/3 More Security And Safety Tips For Wikia Users/@comment-5448890-20150820151720

Some great tips, although due to the nature of images and viruses, number 2 likely isn't going to be evoked very often.

I'll also say that TOR is a great tool, but it does have risks. If a certain exit node, for example, is blocked from Wikia, and you connect through it, you, too, will be blocked. It's an unfortunate drawback to using any public proxy system -- you're never the only one doing it. A VPN or other proxy is preferable over TOR, if you can do it -- as far as I know, though, VPNs aren't free, making them a much more complicated solution than something like TOR.

Finally, number 1 (the real number one. in the real world, numbers start at 1 ;) ) is good, to an extent: yes, you should have a policy, but that policy needs to include "tell wikia staff about it and keep the details between the admins, giving the users only the info they need to keep themselves safe".