On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
> It was a clear factual error which I corrected. If you aren't going to > criticize the original comment you have no basis for criticizing the > correction. > At any rate, what exactly is the topic of this thread, in your opinion? > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > >> If the CIA were to hand you a improved-mediawiki binary, sure > > > PHP is an interpreted language. Surely you wouldn't use someone elses > > byte > > > code. > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Platonides <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Nikola Smolenski wrote: > > >>> Given that we know that NSA conducts massive illegal spying > operations, > > >> there > > >>> is possibility that selinux is altered in a fashion that will make it > > >> easier > > >>> for NSA to spy on selinux' users. I don't know what are CIA's > > >> contributions > > >>> to MediaWiki, but unless it is trivial to review them, I would not > > accept > > >>> them. > > >> If the CIA were to hand you a improved-mediawiki binary, sure. You > could > > >> very well be suspicious about it. But we're talking about open source. > > >> They would be providing the changes, which are to be reviewed, like > any > > >> other code, or perhaps even more, due to coming from the CIA. > > >> > > >> Take into account that CIA and NSA need good software, too. So if they > > >> add a backdoor, they would need to add it *and* at the same time make > it > > >> easy to protect from it, as they wouldn't want their own systems spied > > >> by their own rootkit (and someone will end up forgetting to apply it). > > >> > > >> Instead, contributing good fixes, make everything easier. > > >> > > >> OTOH I encourage you to review selinux. That would make a great > heading > > >> 'Nikola Smolenski discovers NSA backdoor on Linux code' > > >> > > > > This is getting rather off-topic, especially for this thread, and > > possibly for the list as well. > > > > -- > > Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > This thread is (supposedly) about Wikia leasing some office space to the WMF. How it degenerated into a conspiracy-fest about the CIA/NSA, I haven't figured out yet. In any case, Alex's comments echo my own: this back-and-forth has veered horribly off-topic. -Chad _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
