James, are there any reasons that having a community-friendly opinion on the subpoena, national security letter, political risks and related overheads of using closed source hardware with backdoor coprocessors is an inappropriate litmus test for the Technology Expert seat on the Board?
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:45 PM, James Hare jhare@wikimedia.org wrote:
This mailing list thread is about the Wikimedia Foundation recruiting members for its board and I would like to ask we stick to that, please.
James Hare Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:22 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
To follow up on this, Katherine, would you please state the relative risk to politically controversial editors of using CPUs without backdoor coprocessors to host Foundation projects?
Ref.: https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/for-deep-security- use-arm-avoid-intel-amd-processors/
Are there a corresponding subpoena and national security letter burden differences in choosing open source hardware without backdoor
coprocessors?
Thank you for considering these questions.
Best regards, Jim
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:28 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
On the original topic of technology advocacy representation on the
Board,
[c]an we please get someone from the open source hardware community and Legal to tell us how much we could save in subpoena, hardware, and
overhead
costs by avoiding backdoors? Has anyone on the Board ever championed
open
source hardware, since, Sam maybe?
Please see:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5xvn4i/update_ corebootlibreboot_on_amd_has_ceo_level/
https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8aovfb/ china_has_started_ranking_citizens_with_a_creepy/
https://teachprivacy.com/why-i-love-the-gdpr/
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_ Technology%2FAnnual_Plans%2FFY2019%2FCDP3%3A_Knowledge_ Integrity&type=revision&diff=2762601&oldid=2762351
Best regards, Jim
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:44 AM, Philippe Beaudette < philippe@beaudette.me> wrote:
And even if such laws do not exist (and I'm no expert), as an
employee I
would be gravely concerned about taking a role with any employer
where I
knew that they would be publishing the reason for my departure.
Now, employees may /choose/ to publish a reason (as I did) but to
presume
that it would be mandatory (and to be willing to stake your career on
it
in advance) would likely seriously inhibit some candidates from applying. When you pair that with the WMF's (relatively) transparent
organization, I
think the two together would be a significant inhibitor to recruiting.
Philippe
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Joseph Seddon <
josephseddon@gmail.com>
wrote:
"I am unaware of any laws which would prohibit WMF from publishing
the
entirety of executives' compensation details including their employment contracts, severance agreements, and the circumstances in which their departures happen."
Pine, I often appreciate your view and input on a range of topics
but
to be
blunt if this is your genuine opinion I'm personally rather glad my employer does not base its HR policies and practices on your
personal
interpretation of employment law.
Seddon
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com
wrote:
Given Jaime's previous statement on this matter, and my general dissatisfaction with WMF's level of financial transparency, I am uncomfortable with his involvement with selecting a new WMF Board
member
based on his or her finance expertise. I would encourage the Board
to
reconsider Jaime's role in the selection process, and to place a
strong
emphasis on identifying a new board member who has experience with significantly increasing the financial transparency of
organizations.
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