[Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

[Alex]

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 at 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.

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Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)