Re: [Wikitech-l] trace gitblit, was: Re: Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening

2013-08-18 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:19:10PM +0200, rupert THURNER wrote: (2) by when you will adjust your operating guideline, so it is clear to faidon, ariel and others that 10 minutes tracing of an application and getting a holistic view is mandatory _before_ restoring the service, if it goes down for

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans

2013-08-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Hi, I'm a grad student at CMU studying network security in general and censorship / surveillance resistance in particular. I also used to work for Mozilla, some of you may remember me in that capacity. My friend Sumana Harihareswara asked me to comment on Wikimedia's plans for hardening the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans

2013-08-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2013-08-18 1:04 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: an elision mark that does not explain itself. Makes you come across as hit send too early. My email client appears to have decided to post an early draft of the messages I sent on Friday. Sorry about that. Please ignore. For the record, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] trace gitblit, was: Re: Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening

2013-08-18 Thread Tim Starling
On 18/08/13 07:37, rupert THURNER wrote: a trace may reveal locking problems in case of multi threading CPU usage was high, so there were no locking problems. , string operations causing OS calls for every character, System CPU was negligible. creating and garbage collecting objects, and

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-08-18 Thread reporter
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for August 12, 2013 - August 19, 2013 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 13 Reports changed/set to NEW: 16 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 22