It was just demonstrated a few short days ago that the open source OpenSLL had an included vulnerability (Heartbleed) that made a huge number of websites hackable, including the ability to decrypt all SSL traffic by making the server's private key accessible to hackers. The claim that open source guarantees security was glaringly proven to be untrue.
Now listen to this part: the vulnerable section of code was checked into the repository at 11PM on New Year's Eve, which is probably the single hour in all the year which is most suitable to try and sneak something by. And the bad code did get by all the supposed checks and reviews that were in place. Maybe that developer at OpenSSL was bribed by the NSA. Maybe everyone there who was supposed to inspect the code was similarly bribed. At Mozilla, the parallel danger would likely come not from bribes but from someone like a radical gay activist who wants to "expose" whoever is seen as the enemy. After reading more about Baker and the culture of political correctness at Mozilla, that is not entirely far fetched. "What you are describing is completely the opposite to our values, no Mozillian would allow that" 5 Mozilla employees demanded that Eich be excluded because of his religious beliefs, which violates the core value of inclusiveness. They have suffered zero negative consequences, which violates the core value of everyone being treated equally - gays have extra privilege. 13.04.2014, 07:22, "Rubén Martín" <[email protected]>: > El 12/04/14 19:42, Big Fred escribió: > >> Privacy? Aside from the legacy irony of the archives being hosted by the >> most egregious non-government spies on the planet (oops, our map-mobiles >> *accidentally* hacked into all open WIFIs and took their IPs and more), I >> wouldn't be surprised at all if at some point Firefox contains code to >> assemble lists of anyone who visits so-called "hate" sites, such as >> conservative or Christian sites. That might be inserted by some radical >> individual or it might even come as a request from some group. That still >> sounds preposterous at this point, but not if the current trends continue. >> After all, Eich's political donation was at one time considered to be a >> matter of privacy, right? > > Contrary to our competitors, Firefox is fully open source, if someone > would like to insert this kind of "tracking", we would know and the > reviewer won't allow it: > > http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ > > What you are describing is completely the opposite to our values, no > Mozillian would allow that: > > http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto/ > > Regards. > > -- > Rubén Martín [Nukeador] > Mozilla Reps Mentor > http://www.mozilla-hispano.org > http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano > http://facebook.com/mozillahispano > > , > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
