That the FBI has been buying security vulnerability exploits on the black
market for several tens of thousands of dollars each, leaving them
unreported and unpatched for use in surveillance, is by far the worst of
the privacy revelations of past months. Even the worst plausible NSA abuses
from X-KE
I aggree with JP Béland: the computer security obviously affects the
Wikimedia users, but imho we shouldn’t do more than we can and let the
responsability of their own security to the users -- although we should
contribute for a decent security.
For the specific topic you brought about 0-da
I'm not sure what is your point here. How exactly readers of Wikimedia
projects are at risk here because of that story? Are you trying to say it
is the Foundation responsibility to protect the readers from the
vulnerabilities of their operating systems?
JP Béland
2013/8/19 James Salsman
> Whi
While the trickling release of Edward Snowden's revelations from bad to
worse in weekly incremental steps has been enormously effective in swaying
public opinion, it has made formulating a meaningful response very
difficult.
A few weeks ago we learned that the FBI has been purchasing personal
comp