[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and the politics of encryption

[Kirill Lokshin]

To be fair, none of the people receiving requests through legal@ or emergency@ have security clearances either.

Kirill

On Sep 3, 2013, at 1:44 PM, "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> 
>>> Are there more successful attempts?
>> 
>> It would be difficult to enumerate successful attempts since, by
>> definition, they would have been successful at not being known.  :-)
>> -- Marc
> 
> I once suppressed information about a troop movement underway in Iraq
> after a request. Troop movements are explicitly mentioned in the
> Espionage Act.
> 
> Such requests, and other requests regarding obviously illegal material,
> should go to legal at wikimedia.org or emergency at wikimedia.org at the
> Foundation rather than to User:Oversight, by the way. There is a whole
> bunch of people on the oversight committee none of whom are known to have
> security clearances.
> 
> Fred
> 
> 
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