On 19/02/13 at 11:48am, Lee Fisher wrote:
I'd suggest one that is fully-controlled by the community, like
Debian, or another one of your preference.
Anywhere in the world I won't use Debian, because of the fact that
packages shipped are modified and patched a lot. That means other people
Another aspect of this discussion I'm a bit surprised that no one has yet
raised is the simple truth that no amount of testing and source code review can
(or should) anoint a tool as secure.
Even with formally provably secure software, OS, hardware, etc. it is still a
very hard problem to make
..on Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 06:17:16PM +0200, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:49 PM, micah anderson mi...@riseup.net wrote:
Developers never made a mistake leading to a security problem, so
Debian's one mistake in 2006 should be forever trotted out as an example
of how Debian
Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su writes:
I have sent a patch to the author of HTPdate, and he wrote back that a
“Debian security administrator” already went over the code with him
line-by-line.
There is no such thing as a Debian security administrator, and HTPdate
is not in Debian, so I'm not sure
Hi,
Julian Oliver wrote (20 Feb 2013 16:27:24 GMT) :
Did you file a bug? It doesn't look like you did. You should do it.
The program Maxim was talking of is not part of Debian.
... and I agree it's totally unclear if that “Debian security
administrator” was anything but a random system
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com wrote:
Yes, just after sending the email I 'apt-cache search htpdate', returning
nothing. It seems Maxim might have confused Debian with another distribution
of
GNU/Linux.
No, I didn't — I know what Debian is. I remember
danimoth danim...@cryptolab.net writes:
On 20/02/13 at 10:49am, micah anderson wrote:
Developers never made a mistake leading to a security problem, so
Debian's one mistake in 2006 should be forever trotted out as an example
of how Debian sucks, good point.
Sorry, but this distinction
Anyway, we are free to choose what fit our requirements.
True.
Is there any formal academic research on the topic of distro
stability/quality/security, with any listed attributes/requirements?
On one hand, corporate control tends to spyware backdoors. On the other,
volunteer control could
Photos of the dead sailors, their bodies gagged and blindfolded and some
with head wounds suggesting execution-style killings, circulated on China’s
Internet.
From:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/world/asia/chinese-plan-to-use-drone-highlights-military-advances.html?_r=0
I know about the GFW
Most likely it's bad writing. What they likely meant by China's Internet
is China's social network sphere, such as Sina Weibo communities and so
on...
NK
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Brian Conley bri...@smallworldnews.tvwrote:
Photos of the dead sailors, their bodies gagged and
The majority of Internet users in Mainland China spend 100% of their online
time on Chinese websites. Google+, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Blogspot and
many more (see https://en.greatfire.org) are completely blocked in Mainland
China. Most other foreign websites are both considerably slower than
Thanks Martin, I was hoping you'd respond.
Good point, Nadim.
On Feb 20, 2013 8:20 PM, Martin Johnson greatf...@greatfire.org wrote:
The majority of Internet users in Mainland China spend 100% of their
online time on Chinese websites. Google+, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter,
Blogspot and many
I agree with most of Martin's statements. China's internet is practically
separated from the world's internet already. On this front, the Chinese
authority has won the battle.
2013/2/20 Martin Johnson greatf...@greatfire.org
The majority of Internet users in Mainland China spend 100% of their
I just wrote a blog post that people here might find interesting about
using Gajim, a chat client written in python, and Gajim's OTR plugin, a
purely python implementation of the OTR standard, instead of Pidgin and
libotr.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Micah Lee micahf...@riseup.net wrote:
I just wrote a blog post that people here might find interesting about
using Gajim, a chat client written in python, and Gajim's OTR plugin, a
purely python implementation of the OTR standard, instead of Pidgin and
libotr.
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