Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Peter Coombe
On 18 February 2014 07:45, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: ... The coverage I've read so far seems to suggest that he had legitimate access to the data and didn't exploit implementation details of the security system (Well the technical implementation. Arguably he exploited

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 18/02/2014 08:18, Philip Neustrom a écrit : The last details on their technical infrastructure indicated that Snowden used web crawler (love the quotes) software to obtain information from their internal wiki:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread K. Peachey
On 18 February 2014 20:41, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 18/02/2014 08:18, Philip Neustrom a écrit : The last details on their technical infrastructure indicated that Snowden used web crawler (love the quotes) software to obtain information from their internal wiki:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Max Semenik
On 18.02.2014, 14:51 K. wrote: On 18 February 2014 20:41, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: From a usability point of view, I am wondering why he had to rely on a web crawler to export the whole Wiki as HTML. For those wondering, you could use:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Ori Livneh
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Philip Neustrom phi...@localwiki.orgwrote: The latest Snowden docs have some great screenshots of the NSA-internal MediaWiki installation Snowden is alleged to have obtained a lot of his material from:

[Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-17 Thread Philip Neustrom
The latest Snowden docs have some great screenshots of the NSA-internal MediaWiki installation Snowden is alleged to have obtained a lot of his material from:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-17 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2/18/14, Philip Neustrom phi...@localwiki.org wrote: The latest Snowden docs have some great screenshots of the NSA-internal MediaWiki installation Snowden is alleged to have obtained a lot of his material from:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-17 Thread David Gerard
On 18 February 2014 07:45, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I think its safe to say, that if the NSA wanted to design a secure ACL system for MediaWiki, they are more than capable of doing so. (That said, they also know enough that a system like mediawiki is inappropriate for keeping data