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 <platoni...@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. -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
