Re: [Wikimedia-l] law enforcement buying vulnerabilities on black market & leaving them unreported for surveillance

2013-08-20 Thread James Salsman
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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] law enforcement buying vulnerabilities on black market & leaving them unreported for surveillance

2013-08-20 Thread Seb35
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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] law enforcement buying vulnerabilities on black market & leaving them unreported for surveillance

2013-08-19 Thread JP Béland
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