1) 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.
2) 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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
1) 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
2) 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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