Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat distribution delay and the NSA

[Narcis Garcia]

Disagree. It's important to evaluate and fix Mozilla software before
assuming it's at IceCat quality level. I mean that quality in privacy
and security terms by default.


El 09/03/17 a les 13:49, David Hedlund ha escrit:
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> 
> IceCat should release new versions from the upstream release as _soon_
> as it has been released. Users of delayed libre-upstream forks are
> exploited by the NSA:
> 
> 
> From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
> 
> *Vault 7* is a series of documents that WikiLeaks
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks> began to release on March 7,
> 2017 that detail activities of the United States
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> Central Intelligence
> Agency <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency> to
> perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_warfare>. According to WikiLeaks
> founder Julian Assange <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange>,
> Vault 7 is the most comprehensive release of US spying files ever made
> public.^[1]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#cite_note-Inde_7_Mar_2017_Vault_7-1>
> The files, dated from 2013–2016, include details on software
> capabilities of the agency, such as the ability to compromise smart TVs
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_TV>,^[2]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#cite_note-NYT_7_Mar_2017_CIA_leaks-2>
> smartphones <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone>, including Apple
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.>'s iPhone
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone> and phones running Google
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google>'s Android
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29> operating
> system, as well as operating systems
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system> such as Microsoft
> Windows <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows>, macOS
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS>, and Linux
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>.
> 
> It also said that it would postpone releasing the source code for the
> cyber weapons, which is reportedly several hundred million lines long,
> "until a consensus emerges on the technical and political nature of the
> C.I.A.'s program and how such 'weapons' should be analyzed, disarmed and
> published."
> 
> The CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including
> malware <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware>, weaponized zero day
> exploits <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_%28computing%29>,
> malware remote control systems
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_control_%28malware%29> and
> associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts
> to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor
> the entire hacking capacity of the CIA
> 
> --
> David Hedlund
> 
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