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

[George Herbert]

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.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com