Hi Russell Coker, "The Debian GNU/Linux project says that former Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum is no longer welcome at its events, after charges of sexual misconduct were levelled against him" The article you are looking at isn't factually accurate. The Title of the Article says that there were 'charges' leveled against Jacob Appelbaum which never happened. There were NEVER any CHARGES laid against Jacob Appelbaum, heck the accusations posted on the "anonymous" blog were never even reported to police. Nor did they ever see the light of day in a court of law. I don't know about you, but I believe in fighting for everyone's rights, not just my own. I don't know what you are getting at here, whether you're trying to sum up my entire contribution to "linux security" by pointing to a miss leading blog written by someone else, who only quotes the written equivalent of sound bites and can't even get the title of his story inline with actual facts. Are you trying to commit character assassination? I don't see how this particular attempt to assassinate my character or credibility is relevant to the original post which was about "WIKILEAKS, Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed". I have dedicated hours of my spare time to the Free Software movement and advocating for Privacy and other Human Rights? I have dedicated unpaid volunteer hours spent to provide people with knowledge of how to better protect their privacy online, preserve their documents by switching to Free/Open formats, advocacy against DRM and many other contributions. What gives you the right to demand me to justify my right to speak, by questioning how I contribute to the Free Software community? That is a very low place to go madam or sir. Prove your Russia conspiracy theories. I think that is way more relevant.
I think it's reasonable to believe that the Russian government has greater capabilities than the North Korean government and therefore they can > do more than hack Sony.
You don't have to be an expert to know a state sponsored attack was not necessary for the Sony Leak. Also, that you would never be able to truly pin point the location of such an attack anyway since carrying out an attack using compromised hardware scattered across the globe can mask the origin of the true mastermind. No Proof was ever produced that it was Russia or North Korea. The Sony Hack could have easily been an employee who was not satisfied about their time at sony. It could even be a staged false flag attack from within the US to be used as a pretext for a declaration of war against either of the states you have mentioned "Russia or North Korea". Personally, I would not want to start a war with either Russia or North Korea because of un-proven theories that they were responsible for hacking Sony. The same goes for the DNC leaks, which the western mainstream media and also some western politicians has purported as fact (without proof) that "it was the russians" who leaked the emails. Not only is this ridiculous, but the source of the information is only a distraction from the incriminating evidence of the DNC rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders. This could have easily been a DNC insider, which Assange has not outright said that it was, but has eluded not only to that conclusion, but also that that person was assassinated. And in fact there was someone in a position to leak such information has actually died not long ago. Julian Assange has eluded to this in an interview. I am not saying that I believe it as fact, because I am a man of my word, I believe in Innocence till Proven Guilty. This will be my last response to you Russell Coker, as I have dedicated my time to promoting software freedom and not responding to trolls who are pulling out the "russia" card whenever they want to distract from incriminating revelations about the US government or our own. Russell Coker:
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 01:46:00 PM Andri Effendi wrote:
I think people who dismiss Assange or Snowden as "Russian Agent(s)" are bonkers and have been manipulated by the MSM.
I have never suggested that Snowden is a Russian agent. He merely resides in Russia, there is no evidence of him favoring the Russian government. He only released information about the NSA because that's all he had access to.
I can't believe that such critical information that should be released to the public as part of being a so called "democracy" is seen as making them foreign agents.
I doubt that anyone outside a few of the more extreme members of Congress think that releasing such information makes them Russian agents. Claiming that Russia has a free press is however good evidence of being a Russian agent.
Vulnerabilities in the software that hundreds of millions (if not billions) use every day must be exposed and patched ASAP.
True. I think I've done my share of work in securing Linux systems both directly through working on SE Linux and indirectly through finding bugs in various daemons and applications (often due to SE Linux policy revealing inappropriate things).
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/73441-appelbaum-banned- from-debian-events-after-sexual-misconduct-charges.html
Could you please give us a summary of some of your contributions to Linux security? A quick Google search only turned up the above.
We can't let this Anti-Russia scare nonsense affect critically judging our government.
When wrong doing is exposed, IT must be the center of attention, NOT who revealed it.
Edward Snowden revealed wrong-doing, I and others took it seriously. Since the Snowden revelations lots of things have been done to improve security, including a massive increase in the use of HTTPS and TOR.
This latest release by Assange is simply more of the same. Evidence that the CIA is doing things on Android that the NSA was known to do on other platforms years ago is not particularly interesting and doesn't change anything. I think that everyone who read about the Snowden leaks inferred that such things were being done.
Scape goating and saying "it's all russia's fault" without proof is just going to alienate people and will be 100% counter productive.
It's a good thing that I never said it's Russia's fault.
But then studiously ignoring what Russia might be doing is also a bad thing. I think it's reasonable to believe that the Russian government has greater capabilities than the North Korean government and therefore they can do more than hack Sony.
There are more than a few people who are happy to have the US government monitor them. Convince those people that Russia isn't a threat and they won't be particularly interested in doing anything about such problems.
Don't take "it's russia's fault" with a grain of salt, especially nowadays when it is just being used as a distraction.
That's something that Trump or Palin might say.
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