On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
It was a clear factual error which I corrected. If you aren't going to criticize the original comment you have no basis for criticizing the correction. At any rate, what exactly is the topic of this thread, in your opinion?
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Alex mrzmanwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Brian wrote:
If the CIA were to hand you a improved-mediawiki binary, sure
PHP is an interpreted language. Surely you wouldn't use someone elses
byte
code.
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com
wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Given that we know that NSA conducts massive illegal spying
operations,
there
is possibility that selinux is altered in a fashion that will make it
easier
for NSA to spy on selinux' users. I don't know what are CIA's
contributions
to MediaWiki, but unless it is trivial to review them, I would not
accept
them.
If the CIA were to hand you a improved-mediawiki binary, sure. You
could
very well be suspicious about it. But we're talking about open source. They would be providing the changes, which are to be reviewed, like
any
other code, or perhaps even more, due to coming from the CIA.
Take into account that CIA and NSA need good software, too. So if they add a backdoor, they would need to add it *and* at the same time make
it
easy to protect from it, as they wouldn't want their own systems spied by their own rootkit (and someone will end up forgetting to apply it).
Instead, contributing good fixes, make everything easier.
OTOH I encourage you to review selinux. That would make a great
heading
'Nikola Smolenski discovers NSA backdoor on Linux code'
This is getting rather off-topic, especially for this thread, and possibly for the list as well.
-- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)
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This thread is (supposedly) about Wikia leasing some office space to the WMF. How it degenerated into a conspiracy-fest about the CIA/NSA, I haven't figured out yet. In any case, Alex's comments echo my own: this back-and-forth has veered horribly off-topic.
-Chad