[Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Sat Jan 24 09:13:46 UTC 2009


On Saturday 24 January 2009 10:02:17 John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 January 2009 09:34:32 John Vandenberg wrote:
> >> Is the NSA also evil, because the created selinux and gave it to the
> >> open source community?
> >
> > No, NSA is evil because it conducts massive illegal spying operations
> > such as ECHELON.
>
> And how does that relate to selinux, or how does the CIA activities
> relate to their contributions to MediaWiki ?

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.



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