[Foundation-l] Fw: [sorabia] CIA creates computer spy system using Wikipedia's software

[phoebe ayers]

On 11/1/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jimmy gave a speech to the intelligence community earlier this year.
> > We were independently contacted by the State Department some months
> > ago to submit forms to allow the US Government to proceed with use of
> > MediaWiki.  This was the subject of some talks at Wikimania in
> > Cambridge this summer.
> >
> > This is, in other words, not new news (at least to us).
> >
> > On 11/1/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Indeed - we are proud our software is good enough to be used by
> > spooks.
> > >
> > > I didn't see in the story if it confirmed that they're using
> MediaWiki.
> > >
> > > Do you have independent confirmation?
>
> Thanks for the info, for those of us who weren't able to make it to
> Wikimania.


Sorry, I sent this to en-wp but missed this list:

See also Chris Bronk's talk about Wikimania this year about Diplopedia, a
pilot project within the U.S. Department of State to provide information to
diplomats and increase information sharing within the department.
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:CB1

-- phoebe