[MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Fred Bauder
The GCHQ mass tapping operation has been built up over five years by attaching intercept probes to transatlantic fibre-optic cables where they land on British shores carrying data to western Europe from telephone exchanges and internet servers in north America. This was done under secret

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Al
-l] Tapping into the Backbone The GCHQ mass tapping operation has been built up over five years by attaching intercept probes to transatlantic fibre-optic cables where they land on British shores carrying data to western Europe from telephone exchanges and internet servers in north America

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Fred Bauder
Someone said a long time ago, I think from EFF, that the problem will not be Big Brother, but all of the Little Brothers.  Hey! That's us! Fred ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Huib Laurens
Hi, I'm not sure why this is posted on the mediawiki list? It seems to be complete offtopic like lot of other topics from your side lately On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote: The GCHQ mass tapping operation has been built up over five years by attaching

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Stephen Villano
While re-hearing the news because some may have missed it may be a laudable goal, it is a bit amiss here on this mailing list. This list is listed as intended as a help/support list for those running/configuring MediaWiki. It also provides announcements of new versions, bug fixes and security

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Magnus Manske
Or if they managed to uncover the Wikimedia Secret Cabal(tm)! On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Stephen Villano stephen.p.vill...@gmail.com wrote: While re-hearing the news because some may have missed it may be a laudable goal, it is a bit amiss here on this mailing list. This list is

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Stephen Villano
On Jun 22, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: Or if they managed to uncover the Wikimedia Secret Cabal(tm)! Ah! So true. However, the majority of the world refer to them under their proper title: Developers. On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Stephen Villano

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:27:42 -0700, Stephen Villano stephen.p.vill...@gmail.com wrote: Now, if you have news that the NSA or GCHQ has exploited a security flaw in MediaWiki, that would most certainly be on topic for this mailing list and would be greatly appreciated. Actually it would

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Stephen Villano
Thanks for the addition. You are quite correct. Didn't know of the secur...@wikimedia.org. I'll note it in case I bump into something in the future. On Jun 22, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:27:42 -0700, Stephen Villano stephen.p.vill...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone

2013-06-22 Thread Al
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Tapping into the Backbone The GCHQ mass tapping operation has been built up over five years by attaching intercept probes to transatlantic fibre-optic cables where they land on British shores carrying data to western Europe from telephone exchanges and internet servers