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Mary K. Isaacs
hi,
i saw on the wmf statement on meta that https everywhere should calm
people. thats a good start already. 3 years ago the EFF (electronic
frontier foundation) warned about https. Soghoian and Stamm write
about especially about certificate authorities (CA):
[...] Microsoft’s Root Certificate Program includes he
governments of Austria, Brazil, [...], the United States and Uruguay.
[...] each of these states has the power to facilitate attacks on
encryption anywhere in the world — not just in its territory or
Internet domain.
[...]
“Packet Forensics’ devices are designed to be inserted-into and
removed-from busy networks without causing any noticeable interruption
[. . . ] This allows you to conditionally intercept web, e-mail, VoIP
and other traffic at-will, even while it remains protected inside an
encrypted tunnel on the wire. Using ‘man-in-the-middle’ to intercept
TLS or SSL is essentially an at-tack against the underlying
Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key agreement protocol [. . . ] To use
our product in this scenario, [government] users have the ability to
import a copy of any legitimate key they obtain (potentially by court
order) or they can generate ‘look-alike’ keys designed to give the
subject a false sense of confidence in its authenticity.”
[...]
Individuals living in countries with laws that protect their
privacy from unreasonable invasion have good reason to avoid trusting
foreign governments (or foreign companies) to protect their private
data. This is because individuals often receive the greatest legal
protection from their own governments, and little to none from other
countries. For example, US law strictly regulates the ability of the
US government to collect information on US persons. However, the
government can freely spy on foreigners around the world, as long as
the surveillance is performed outside the US.
the conclusion is also interesting:
when a company that uses a certificate authority located in a
country different than the one in which it holds user data, it
needlessly exposes users’ data to the compelled disclosure by an
additional government.
so, by getting the certificates from digicert, the traffic can easier
be snooped by the u.s. government. and only u.s. citizens are
protected by u.s. law. this gives a lot of trust :)
links:
* https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/researchers-reveal-likelihood-governm…
* http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf
rupert
Hi WCA and friends,
we will have a phone meeting on Sunday, 16th of June @ 19:00 UTC [1].
More details and the agenda can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Meetings/2013…
If you want to join, please contact me for the phone meeting number.
Please note there is an agenda point about current issues in the
chapters. If you have anything trouble (or, of course, good news) you'd
like to discuss, that's the time to do it.
I think we also should talk about the board elections and a chapter
perspective on the candidates.
Best,
Markus
[1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130616T1900
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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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Markus Glaser
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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Note: German (Deutsch) and Spanish (Español) versions are below.
***English***
Hi all,
We want to direct your attention to our blog post (
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ )
about the PRISM situation involving government intelligence
surveillance on the Internet. We are asking for Wikimedia community
feedback on a proposed course of action (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM ). In short, we are inclined to
recommend that the Wikimedia Foundation collaborate with organizations
including Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free
Software Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology.
These groups have now prepared an open letter to the US congress
(https://www.stopwatching.us/ ), calling for transparency,
investigation, reform, and accountability, and have asked other
organizations (including the Wikimedia Foundation) to join them in
their efforts.
We ask you to read the blog post for more details, and encourage you
to tell us your views on this.
Many thanks,
Geoff and Luis
Geoff Brigham
General Counsel
Luis Villa
Deputy General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
Note: We expect to have a couple more translations of this
announcement in the next couple of days. We would like to ask the
international Wikimedia community to help translate the blog posting
and feedback page (which are almost the same) as well as people’s
feedback given throughout the course of this consultation period. Due
to tight time limits, we hope to have professional translations for
these documents posted by next Tuesday for at least German, French,
Spanish, and Japanese.
___________
***Deutsch***
Hallo,
Wir würden eure Aufmerksamkeit gern auf unseren Blogeintrag (
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ )
zur PRISM-Situation und geheimdienstlicher Überwachung des Internets
lenken. Wir bitten die Wikimediagemeinschaften um Rückmeldung zum
vorgeschlagenen Vorgehen. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM)
Kurz zusammengefasst tendieren wir dazu zu empfehlen, dass die
Wikimedia Foundation mit Organisationen wie Mozilla, der Electronic
Frontier Foundation, der Free Software Foundation und dem Zentrum für
Demokratie und Technologie zusammenarbeitet. Diese Gruppen haben einen
offenen Brief an den Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten
(https://www.stopwatching.us/) vorbereitet um Transparenz,
Untersuchung der Vorgänge, Reform sowie Rechenschaftspflicht
einzufordern und haben andere Organisationen (einschließlich der
Wikimedia Foundation) darum gebeten dieses Vorhaben zu unterstützen.
Wir bitten euch den Blogeintrag mit den zugehörigen Details zu lesen
und uns eure Meinung zu dem Vorschlag mitzuteilen.
Vielen Dank,
Geoff und Luis
Geoff Brigham
General Counsel
Luis Villa
Deputy General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
Hinweis: Wir würden die internationale WIkimediagemeinschaft gern
darum bitten bei der Übersetzung des Blogeintrags und der
Feedbackseite (die beiden sind fast identisch) sowie der Rückmeldungen
aus der Community während der Konsultationsperiode mitzuhelfen. Durch
die kurze Vorbereitungszeit hoffen wir bis Dienstag zumindest
professionelle Übersetzungen für die Dokumente zumindest in Deutsch,
Französisch, Spanisch und Japanisch zu haben.
_______________
***Español***
Hola,
Queremos dirigir su atención a nuestra entrada en el blog (
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ )
sobre la situación PRISM involucra la vigilancia de inteligencia del
gobierno en Internet. Estamos pidiendo Wikimedia retroalimentación de
la comunidad sobre un curso de acción propuesto. (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM ) En resumen, nos sentimos
inclinados a recomendar que la Fundación Wikimedia colaborar con
organizaciones como Mozilla, la Fundación Fronteras Electrónicas, la
Fundación para el software libre y el Centro para la Democracia y la
Tecnología. Estos grupos han preparado una carta abierta al Congreso
de EE.UU. (https://www.stopwatching.us/), exigiendo la transparencia,
la investigación, la reforma y la rendición de cuentas, y han pedido a
otras organizaciones (entre ellas la Fundación Wikimedia) a unirse a
ellos en sus esfuerzos.
Le pedimos que lea el blog para más detalles, y le animamos a decirnos
sus puntos de vista sobre esto.
Muchas gracias,
Geoff y Luis
Geoff Brigham
General Counsel
Luis Villa
Deputy General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
Nota: Nos gustaría pedir a la comunidad internacional Wikimedia para
ayudar a traducir la entrada de blog y la página de comentarios (que
son casi lo mismo), así como la retroalimentación de las usuarios que
recibieron durante este período de consulta. Debido a los plazos
ajustados, esperamos contar con traducciones profesionales para los
documentos enviados por el próximo martes por lo menos alemán,
francés, español y japonés.
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This is a simple question with a potentially very complicated answer.....
What, if any, are the implications of the PRISM scandal for Wikimedia?
Does the fact that our servers are based in the US now compromise our
mission either in a technical, privacy or an ethical sense?
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Greetings, everyone!
Are you curious about what the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Round 1
grantees have been working on these last few months? If you haven't already
seen the first progress reports submitted by the FDC Round 1 grantees,
come on over and check them out! To find these first quarter progress
reports, go to the Round 1 hub on the FDC portal and click on the progress
report form Q1 for any of the Round 1 entities [1]. I want to thank all the
entities for sharing their progress and learning with us; we have really
enjoyed reading the updates and look forward to continuing to learn from
them.
Second, the FDC staff published a summary of the first progress reports for
the FDC. [2] This summary shares some emerging themes and an overview of
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As ever, contact me with questions or comments!
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