Let me make my position clear: * Correcting factual errors is always appropriate. * This thread no longer has a clear topic.
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Alex <mrzmanw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm criticizing the switch from "Wikia leasing office space to WMF" to > "Is the CIA evil?" I just responded to the most recent email in my > inbox; I thought that would be more appropriate than responding to all > 17 CIA/NSA-related emails. I was not criticizing you in particular. > > The topic of this thread is "Wikia leasing office space to WMF," that > should be rather clear from the subject. And the topic of the list is > "Wikimedia related issues." Its almost on topic for the list (MediaWiki > is at least mentioned occasionally), its certainly not at all related to > the topic of the thread. > > Brian wrote: > > It was a clear factual error which I corrected. If you aren't going to > > criticize the original comment you have no basis for criticizing the > > correction. > > At any rate, what exactly is the topic of this thread, in your opinion? > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Alex <mrzmanw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l