They tap directly into the internet backbone. Only if there is some particular matter which interests them which they would need our help to decipher would they contact the Foundation. There are a few things out there that I can imagine them being interested in, but very few. For example, there are small groups of people in the United States that support The Shining Path or the Naxalites. Active steps to open a military front in the United States would probably kick them into gear and they might be interested in who edited our articles on these subjects as advocates for that tendency.
Fred > If the NSA, CIA, or some other spook agency is getting information off of Wikimedia servers, they don't have a CU account or anything like that. > They'd have a program running at the operating system level that > extracts > the data in a standardised format and sends it off to some secret server somewhere where it can be collated for data mining purposes. If they have > some way of getting private information, it's going to be well hidden and not something you or I are likely to (or capable of) stumbling across. > > Cheers, > Craig > > > On 10 June 2013 20:09, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10 June 2013 10:56, Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Precisely, they could ask to have "CU" accounts... >> >> >> There are people who closely monitor who has what powers. >> >> >> - d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
