[Wikimedia-l] NSA

[Anthony]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On 01/08/13 14:15, Anthony wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I would be fired and jailed before I knowingly let that occur. If this
> was
> >> the case I'd very surely not be working for Wikimedia Foundation.
> >>
> >
> > Key word there being "knowingly".
>
> I don't know why the NSA would sneak around in our data centres
> mirroring our ethernet ports if they already have almost all of our
> access logs by capturing unencrypted traffic as it passes through
> XKeyscore nodes.
>

Especially not when they can get someone else to do it for them.

I think you should save the conspiracy theories until after we switch
> anons to HTTPS, that's when they will have an incentive.
>

And I thought Ryan Lane was talking about the future, not the past.  I
certainly was.