Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Fred Bauder
In our earlier discussion about PRISM. Whether the intelligence agencies could, if they felt it within their remit, access edits and other actions, and, of course, passwords. Obviously they can easily if they are not encrypted. Common sense, on the other hand will inform you that nothing we do woul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Huib Laurens
Where is that question in this topic? Huib Op zaterdag 22 juni 2013 schreef Fred Bauder (fredb...@fairpoint.net) het volgende: > > Can you please stop spamming Us With topics like this? Its not Wikimedia > > related at all. > > > > Huib > > It is related. There was a question as to whether edits

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Fred Bauder
> Can you please stop spamming Us With topics like this? Its not Wikimedia > related at all. > > Huib It is related. There was a question as to whether edits and other activity on Wikipedia were being swept up. Obviously they are. Whether activities of interest to intelligence agencies are logged

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Huib Laurens
Can you please stop spamming Us With topics like this? Its not Wikimedia related at all. Huib Op zaterdag 22 juni 2013 schreef Fred Bauder (fredb...@fairpoint.net) het volgende: > "The GCHQ mass tapping operation has been built up over five years by > attaching intercept probes to transatlantic

[Wikimedia-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Fred Bauder
"The GCHQ mass tapping operation has been built up over five years by attaching intercept probes to transatlantic fibre-optic cables where they land on British shores carrying data to western Europe from telephone exchanges and internet servers in north America. This was done under secret agreemen