> 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' > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
