Hoi, First, what the Foundation does is not in order to protect itself but to protect its readers, its authors.
Second, when you consider security theatre, consider the other countries and then consider the countries where security has a better chance than the USA. Be advised that in many, most countries citizens of other countries are fair game and that the USA is often an active participant in odious regimes in many countries.
Third, when we give up on security we are complicit. We have to consider what companies like Facebook do to create their own hardware and when we can strengthen the move to a state where Cisco hardware is no longer used (Cisco has a bad reputation for open backdoors).
Fourth, what was the use of HTTPS about if all we do is theatre? NO; it is relevant and lets make it more so. Thanks, GerrdM
On 22 January 2018 at 01:45, Craig Franklin cfranklin@halonetwork.net wrote:
I think, as Geni says, that even that isn't going to provide any effective barrier. If the NSA or other US Government spooks want to get into the servers, they will, regardless of what hardware it's running on, what software it uses, or what jurisdiction it is located in. Anything that the Foundation does to "protect" itself is just going to be security theatre. Anyone doing anything that the current or future American administrations might object to should keep that in mind. I assume that every place I go on the Internet is already compromised and act accordingly.
Cheers, Craig
On 21 January 2018 at 19:13, Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com wrote:
What about moving to another country? Still not an option?
Cheers Yaroslav
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 8:38 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
- still don't see the relevance. If better technology is needed, it's
needed - that should be independent of any lobbying preferences. It
looks
like you're just pushing tangents again.
- You do realize that the FTC and the FEC are very different
organizations? But again, it seems you just used this statement as an opportunity to push a tangent.
Please don't do that.
Thanks, Lodewijk
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:43 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com
wrote:
- I don't quite see how your question about servers and switches
relates
to Stephen's statement. Could you explain for us mere mortals how
you
link
the two?
The NSA surveillance which was reauthorized by Congress can not
depend
on eavesdropping alone with new HTTPS cyphers. It needs compromised hardware to work, such as has been included in Dell servers since the Foundation started purchasing them, and the design of which was overseen by the Foundation's CTO, who worked then at Intel. This provides us with the know-how, a teachable moment, and an excellent opportunity to specify and acquire replacement open source hardware which doesn't have the DIETYBOUNCE / System Management Mode OOB /
iAMT
and related backdoors.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/nsa_exploit_of.html
- I somehow missed the commitment by the WMF to research "FEC
requirements
of organized advocates for US political candidates' or anything
that
suggests that the WMF may advocate for specific political
candidates
(which
seems a change of course that would be hard to sweep under the
rug).
Could
you quote?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_ talk:Conflict_of_interest&diff=prev&oldid=815460492# Note_from_Wikimedia_Legal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Slaporte_(WMF)# Research_topic_request
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