On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)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(a)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(a)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