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"It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called "the Linux Journal - the Original Magazine of the Li

by jqm 12y ago

"It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called "the Linux Journal - the Original Magazine of the Linux Community", and calls it an "extremist forum"." WTF? I guess I am on a list. Who knew being an extremist was so easy?

reuven 12y ago
I write for Linux Journal. Imagine how I feel! I had no idea that I was participating in subversive activities.
- cottonseed 12y ago
  Proud?
  - reuven 12y ago
    I'm certainly proud to be associated with LJ, and to be writing for them. I'm also willing to believe that hackers who want to use encryption and other privacy-oriented technologies use and read about open-source technologies. Although my guess is that this includes nearly all serious security researchers, experts, and implementers. That said, to claim that people who read LJ are extremists, or that the magazine is something of an "extremist forum," misses the mark in so many ways.
kps 12y ago
No, it doesn't say that Linux Journal itself is an ‘extremist forum’. It says that TAILs is “advocated by extremists on extremist forums”, and includes Linux Journal as a source of information about TAILs, neither of which seem surprising.
- jqm 12y ago
  Yes it says exactly that. Thus the quotes "" in my post. 4'th bullet point from the top in case you wish to check again.
  - kps 12y ago
    The article, which presumably was written by the authors on its byline rather than by the NSA, says that. The actual config file, linked from the article, at http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt says: /* These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by extremists on extremist forums. */ Linux Journal is listed there, as a ‘website relating to TAILS’, not as an ‘extremist forum’. Journalists gotta journalize.

by jqm 12y ago

reuven 12y ago

I write for Linux Journal. Imagine how I feel! I had no idea that I was participating in subversive activities.

cottonseed 12y ago
Proud?
- reuven 12y ago
  I'm certainly proud to be associated with LJ, and to be writing for them. I'm also willing to believe that hackers who want to use encryption and other privacy-oriented technologies use and read about open-source technologies. Although my guess is that this includes nearly all serious security researchers, experts, and implementers. That said, to claim that people who read LJ are extremists, or that the magazine is something of an "extremist forum," misses the mark in so many ways.

kps 12y ago

No, it doesn't say that Linux Journal itself is an ‘extremist forum’. It says that TAILs is “advocated by extremists on extremist forums”, and includes Linux Journal as a source of information about TAILs, neither of which seem surprising.

jqm 12y ago
Yes it says exactly that. Thus the quotes "" in my post. 4'th bullet point from the top in case you wish to check again.
- kps 12y ago
  The article, which presumably was written by the authors on its byline rather than by the NSA, says that. The actual config file, linked from the article, at http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt says: /* These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by extremists on extremist forums. */ Linux Journal is listed there, as a ‘website relating to TAILS’, not as an ‘extremist forum’. Journalists gotta journalize.